5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OYAMA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname from Japanese.

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 OYAMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OYAMA 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 294 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,164 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___A O in the 1st position and A in the 5th position O__M_ O in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _Y__A Y in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TRONE LATER STIRE SIDLE TARSE
Words starting with O Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.85 Entropy (bits)
294 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OYAMA 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,164 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OYAMA ranks #13,164 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
362
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
20%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

628
355
264
220
148
92
84
72
56
50
41
29
26
20
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OYAMA:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
15% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
SLIER 6.05 bits
15.1% →
TRONE 5.28 bits
11.2% →
LATER 5.50 bits
9.3% →
STIRE 5.00 bits
6.3% →
SIDLE 4.65 bits
3.9% →
TARSE 4.09 bits
3.6% →
TALON 4.62 bits
3.1% →
DROLE 3.98 bits
2.4% →
ROUTE 4.54 bits
2.1% →
SIREN 5.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1Y4A1M3A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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