5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

OWARE

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈwɑːri/

Noun

A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.

Alternative forms: awari, owari, wari, warri

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 OWARE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OWARE 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 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,578 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.

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___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position O__R_ O in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__E W in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SPILT SOOTY NATAL SLEET TRIER TUILE
Words starting with O Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OWARE 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,578 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OWARE ranks #6,578 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
848
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
247
6 guesses
16
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:
AEOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
34%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

264
185
173
154
137
105
86
80
79
78
67
62
58
54
52
50
49
43
39
38
27
25
25
21
20
20
19
19
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OWARE:

11% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
8% chance
Suggested:
SOOTY
7% chance
Suggested:
NATAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
SPILT 5.46 bits
7.8% →
SOOTY 4.86 bits
7.3% →
NATAL 4.97 bits
6.5% →
SLEET 5.41 bits
5.8% →
TRIER 4.36 bits
4.5% →
TUILE 4.55 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 4.54 bits
3.4% →
CRUST 4.77 bits
3.4% →
TROOP 4.17 bits
3.3% →
PETAL 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1W4A1R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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