5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OXIMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of oxim

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 OXIMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OXIMS 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 73.0% of games, misses completely in 27.0%, and leaves about 306 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,757 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__M_ O in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _X__S X in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE STALE TILDE CRANE ROOST MARLE
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.72 Entropy (bits)
306 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OXIMS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,757 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OXIMS ranks #12,757 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
332
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
17%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

637
349
292
226
151
113
78
63
59
47
41
37
33
27
24
17
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OXIMS:

27% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
15% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.0% →
CARLE 6.17 bits
14.8% →
CARLE 5.22 bits
12.4% →
STALE 5.66 bits
9.6% →
TILDE 5.15 bits
6.4% →
CRANE 5.00 bits
4.8% →
ROOST 4.57 bits
3.3% →
MARLE 5.12 bits
2.7% →
LEANT 4.05 bits
2.5% →
TALER 4.58 bits
2.0% →
SIENT 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1X8I1M3S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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