5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

OWNED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əʊnd//oʊnd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of own

Adjective

Having an owner who is part of a specified group.

“black-owned; veteran-owned; woman-owned”

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 OWNED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OWNED 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,481 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OWNED.

First-turn measures

All four describe OWNED used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OWNED 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,481 Rank among openers
Opening with OWNED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,481 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

OWNED can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

465 answers
381 answers
269 answers
143 answers
131 answers
78 answers
71 answers
64 answers
61 answers
53 answers
49 answers
37 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1W4N1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLART STAIR SAINT PROSE RAILE ARENE

Strategy after playing OWNED

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to OWNED.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OWNED:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLART
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
SLART 6.01 bits
16.0% →
SLART 5.94 bits
11.3% →
SLART 5.30 bits
6.0% →
STAIR 4.55 bits
5.5% →
SAINT 5.38 bits
3.3% →
PROSE 4.52 bits
3.0% →
RAILE 4.57 bits
2.7% →
ARENE 4.59 bits
2.6% →
SAINT 4.43 bits
2.2% →
DAILY 4.59 bits

Research on OWNED

Game-tree analysis and word research for OWNED, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with OWNED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,448 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with OWNED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it OHND.

Rhymes with TONED ZONED HONED BONED

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OWNED sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 58 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.1 of 5).

In a sentence

The house is owned by him.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
How long have you owned it?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).