5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OWARI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of oware.

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 OWARI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OWARI 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,149 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___I O in the 1st position and I in the 5th position O__R_ O in the 1st position and R in the 4th position

Try next

STILE SLEPT SALET CLOTE TERSE SLATE
Words starting with O Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.64 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OWARI 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,149 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OWARI ranks #9,149 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
23
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:
AIOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
21%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

261
258
240
220
151
146
115
114
104
68
67
57
50
37
34
30
26
26
25
21
20
17
15
14
13
13
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12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OWARI:

11% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLEPT
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.1% →
STILE 5.33 bits
10.9% →
SLEPT 5.59 bits
10.2% →
SALET 5.32 bits
9.3% →
CLOTE 5.08 bits
6.4% →
TERSE 5.19 bits
6.2% →
SLATE 4.80 bits
4.9% →
SPITE 4.33 bits
4.8% →
SOOTE 4.47 bits
4.4% →
PALET 4.60 bits
2.9% →
TALON 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1W4A1R1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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