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

OXINE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

8-hydroxyquinoline when used to form complexes with metal ions in inorganic analysis.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use OXINE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How OXINE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OXINE 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,126 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe OXINE 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OXINE 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,126 Rank among openers
Opening with OXINE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,126 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
27

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EINO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

OXINE can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

356 answers
333 answers
288 answers
192 answers
150 answers
92 answers
74 answers
66 answers
65 answers
63 answers
61 answers
55 answers
53 answers
52 answers
50 answers
40 answers
40 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1X8I1N1E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing OXINE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OXINE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SLART 5.90 bits
14.0% →
SERAL 5.44 bits
12.1% →
SLART 5.29 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.20 bits
6.3% →
SALTY 4.85 bits
3.9% →
SLART 5.00 bits
3.1% →
ROAST 4.08 bits
2.8% →
ACORN 4.29 bits
2.7% →
LEARN 4.40 bits
2.6% →
SAULT 4.43 bits

Research on OXINE

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

Optimal play

Opening with OXINE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,834 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,907 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).