5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OWERS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ower

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 OWERS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OWERS 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,798 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___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__R_ O in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _W__S W in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

PAINT LIANE PATEE TONAL SAULT TRIAD
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OWERS 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
0.73 Volatility
#8,798 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OWERS ranks #8,798 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
813
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
262
6 guesses
27
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
17%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

342
279
206
192
168
129
105
96
70
66
55
42
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39
33
33
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24
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OWERS:

15% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
9% chance
Suggested:
PATEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
PAINT 5.73 bits
11.8% →
LIANE 5.35 bits
8.7% →
PATEE 4.67 bits
8.1% →
TONAL 5.13 bits
7.1% →
SAULT 5.31 bits
5.5% →
TRIAD 5.16 bits
4.5% →
APRON 4.16 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.78 bits
3.0% →
CONTE 4.21 bits
2.8% →
STOOL 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1W4E1R1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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