5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OWLED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of owl

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 OWLED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OWLED 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,032 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___D O in the 1st position and D in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _W__D W in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT REAST ROOST SLAIN STAIR PLATE
Words starting with O Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OWLED 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,032 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OWLED ranks #6,032 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
838
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
11
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:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

428
329
261
177
128
120
82
68
65
54
50
35
29
29
28
25
22
21
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18
18
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OWLED:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
REAST
11% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
SAINT 6.19 bits
14.0% →
REAST 5.67 bits
11.1% →
ROOST 5.30 bits
7.5% →
SLAIN 5.01 bits
5.4% →
STAIR 4.63 bits
5.1% →
PLATE 4.72 bits
3.5% →
SNORE 4.55 bits
2.9% →
COAST 4.47 bits
2.8% →
GEARE 4.57 bits
2.3% →
DRAIN 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1W4L1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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