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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

OUTER

Yes, OUTER was the Wordle answer on May 12, 2024 (Wordle #1058).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtə//ˈaʊtɚ/[ˈaʊɾɚ]

Adjective

Outside; external.

Adjective

Farther from the centre of the inside.

Noun

An outer part.

Noun

An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.

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: May 12, 2024 (#1058).

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

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How OUTER performs as a guess

OUTER 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 102 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,655 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___R O in the 1st position and R in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN SLANE COLON DEARE CAIRN SHALT
Words starting with O Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.29 Entropy (bits)
102 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OUTER 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#3,655 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OUTER ranks #3,655 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
24
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
3 vowels
Common:
EORTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
28%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
O T H E R
O U T E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OUTER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

257
225
161
120
118
101
100
87
75
74
66
64
63
53
49
35
30
30
30
29
29
28
28
27
24
22
22
22
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20

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUTER:

11% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
COLON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9% →
SLAIN 5.70 bits
9.5% →
SLANE 5.44 bits
6.8% →
COLON 5.18 bits
5.1% →
DEARE 4.61 bits
5.0% →
CAIRN 4.67 bits
4.3% →
SHALT 5.11 bits
4.2% →
SAINT 5.22 bits
3.7% →
ACORN 4.46 bits
3.2% →
SADLY 4.03 bits
3.1% →
RAINY 3.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1T1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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