5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

OUTIE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Anything convex; especially:

Noun

An extrovert.

Adjective

Alternative form of outtie.

Alternative forms: outtie, outy

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

Use OUTIE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

OUTIE in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How OUTIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OUTIE 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 91.9% of games, misses completely in 8.1%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,656 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

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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 O__I_ O in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position OU_IE O in the 1st position, U in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe OUTIE 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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OUTIE 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#6,656 Rank among openers
Opening with OUTIE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,656 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
240
6 guesses
27

Composition

5/5 unique
4 vowels
Common:
EIOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
36%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

OUTIE can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

243 answers
228 answers
192 answers
141 answers
123 answers
102 answers
79 answers
75 answers
72 answers
71 answers
70 answers
69 answers
67 answers
67 answers
60 answers
53 answers
38 answers
37 answers
34 answers
32 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1T1I1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SERAL COLOR SNARL SHALY SLART SURLY

Strategy after playing OUTIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUTIE:

10% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
10% chance
Suggested:
COLOR
8% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2% →
SERAL 5.39 bits
9.6% →
COLOR 5.13 bits
8.1% →
SNARL 5.19 bits
5.9% →
SHALY 4.86 bits
5.2% →
SLART 4.38 bits
4.3% →
SLART 5.01 bits
3.3% →
SURLY 3.70 bits
3.1% →
DINER 4.62 bits
3.0% →
SHART 4.63 bits
3.0% →
SORAL 4.69 bits

Research on OUTIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with OUTIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,042 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with OUTIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OUTIE 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).