5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OVELS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ovel

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 OVELS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OVELS 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,445 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__L_ O in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _V__S V in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN TIARE DONOR STAIR PLAIN REATE
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.50 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OVELS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,445 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OVELS ranks #9,445 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
778
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
17%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

350
335
245
179
120
118
115
84
76
73
72
49
42
40
36
36
35
25
25
20
20
20
15
15
15
13
12
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OVELS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
DONOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
TRAIN 5.95 bits
14.2% →
TIARE 5.48 bits
10.4% →
DONOR 5.00 bits
7.6% →
STAIR 5.24 bits
5.1% →
PLAIN 4.94 bits
5.0% →
REATE 4.85 bits
4.9% →
STAIR 4.80 bits
3.6% →
RONTE 4.58 bits
3.2% →
ROOST 4.42 bits
3.1% →
CLARY 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1V4E1L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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