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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

OUSIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈuːsɪə//ˈuːzɪə/

Noun

The essential nature or ‘substance’ of God, often as contrasted to the ‘energies’ (external actions and influences) through which he is manifest.

Noun

Essence, being.

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 OUSIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OUSIA 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 93.3% of games, misses completely in 6.7%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,560 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___A O in the 1st position and A in the 5th position O__I_ O in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe OUSIA 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.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OUSIA 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#9,560 Rank among openers
Opening with OUSIA left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,560 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
817
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
33
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
4 vowels
Common:
AIOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
93%
Green tile
21%
All gray
7%

Feedback distribution

OUSIA can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

373 answers
245 answers
244 answers
158 answers
148 answers
100 answers
90 answers
81 answers
80 answers
77 answers
66 answers
53 answers
49 answers
46 answers
44 answers
38 answers
37 answers
32 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1S1I1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CARLE TRINE TRONE DETER THALE CAROL

Strategy after playing OUSIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUSIA:

16% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
CARLE 5.52 bits
10.3% →
TRINE 5.26 bits
10.3% →
TRONE 5.00 bits
6.7% →
DETER 5.41 bits
6.2% →
THALE 4.77 bits
4.2% →
CAROL 4.51 bits
3.8% →
PORTE 4.28 bits
3.4% →
MARLE 3.87 bits
3.4% →
STILE 4.29 bits
3.2% →
CRUET 5.01 bits

Research on OUSIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with OUSIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,549 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,902 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it OWSEEUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OUSIA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).