5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

OVARY

OVARY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəɹi//ˈoʊvəɹi/

Noun

A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

“The male testicles are homologous to the female ovaries.”

Noun

The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.

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

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 OVARY performs as a guess

OVARY 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,216 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___Y O in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position O__R_ O in the 1st position and R in the 4th position

Try next

STILE SEINE SONCE SALET SOOTE SIDLE
Words starting with O Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OVARY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#10,216 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OVARY ranks #10,216 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
28
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
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
33%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B R A V O
O V A R Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OVARY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

409
227
226
221
154
130
128
106
71
66
65
57
37
32
30
26
25
22
20
20
17
17
16
15
13
12
11
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OVARY:

17% chance
Suggested:
STILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
10% chance
Suggested:
SONCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
STILE 6.14 bits
9.6% →
SEINE 5.13 bits
9.6% →
SONCE 5.16 bits
9.4% →
SALET 5.37 bits
6.5% →
STILE 5.15 bits
5.5% →
SOOTE 4.43 bits
5.4% →
SIDLE 4.64 bits
4.5% →
TALER 4.49 bits
3.0% →
SLANT 3.69 bits
2.8% →
CLINE 3.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1V4A1R1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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