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OUNCE

Yes, OUNCE was the Wordle answer on August 9, 2024 (Wordle #1147).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /aʊns/

Noun

An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.

Noun

A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.

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: August 9, 2024 (#1147).

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

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How OUNCE performs as a guess

OUNCE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,590 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

O___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OUNCE.

First-turn measures

All four describe OUNCE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OUNCE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,590 Rank among openers
Opening with OUNCE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,590 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,105
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
G N O M E
O U N C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OUNCE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

OUNCE can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

323 answers
309 answers
221 answers
173 answers
92 answers
83 answers
76 answers
65 answers
64 answers
57 answers
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25 answers
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23 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1N1C3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLART ALTER SLANT ARIEL SADLY GROAN

Strategy after playing OUNCE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to OUNCE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUNCE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
13% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
SLART 5.99 bits
13.0% →
ALTER 5.32 bits
9.3% →
SLART 5.29 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.31 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 5.12 bits
3.5% →
ARIEL 4.62 bits
3.2% →
SADLY 4.22 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.83 bits
2.7% →
GROAN 4.40 bits
2.4% →
ROAST 3.86 bits

Research on OUNCE

Game-tree analysis and word research for OUNCE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with OUNCE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,219 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,884 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it OWNS.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OUNCE is a kind of weight or unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OUNCE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 45 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

With every ounce of my strength!
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is one fluid ounce.
© tatoeba.org contributor letsgolanguages (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).