5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OUIJA

OUIJA is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Ouija.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How OUIJA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OUIJA as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.5% of games, misses completely in 9.5%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,177 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

O___A O in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE ROOSE STEER TILDE TRINE CRUST
Words starting with O Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OUIJA 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.77 Volatility
#14,177 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OUIJA ranks #14,177 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
620
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
420
6 guesses
47
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
4 vowels
Common:
AIOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
23%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

538
337
223
198
175
125
115
111
77
66
55
43
40
27
21
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
7
6
6
6
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUIJA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
14% chance
Suggested:
ROOSE
9% chance
Suggested:
STEER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.8% →
TARSE 5.51 bits
14.3% →
ROOSE 5.07 bits
9.5% →
STEER 5.64 bits
8.4% →
TILDE 4.77 bits
7.4% →
TRINE 4.56 bits
5.3% →
CRUST 4.99 bits
4.9% →
TALER 4.44 bits
4.7% →
SURLY 4.03 bits
3.3% →
TRAIN 4.68 bits
2.8% →
CRUET 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1I1J8A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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