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OUGHT

Yes, OUGHT was the Wordle answer on October 14, 2021 (Wordle #117).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɔːt//oːt//ʊt/

Verb

simple past of owe

Verb

Indicating duty or obligation.

“I ought to vote in the coming election.”

Pronoun

Alternative spelling of aught; anything

Adverb

Alternative spelling of aught; at all, to any degree.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 14, 2021 (#117).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How OUGHT performs as a guess

OUGHT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.0% of games, misses completely in 27.0%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,538 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

O___T O in the 1st position and T in the 5th position O__H_ O in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE CARLE TARTE CARSE SLIER SANER
Words starting with O Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OUGHT performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,538 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OUGHT ranks #7,538 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
848
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
O U G H T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OUGHT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

636
310
178
137
106
98
96
84
66
54
49
48
37
31
30
28
27
23
22
22
17
16
15
14
14
13
10
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUGHT:

27% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

27.0% →
RAILE 6.16 bits
13.1% →
CARLE 5.33 bits
7.5% →
TARTE 5.57 bits
5.8% →
CARSE 5.65 bits
4.5% →
SLIER 5.33 bits
4.2% →
SANER 5.09 bits
4.1% →
LIANE 5.32 bits
3.6% →
SILER 4.45 bits
2.8% →
TARTE 4.51 bits
2.3% →
TARTE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for OUGHT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

O1U1G2H4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.