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

OYERS

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

No dictionary definition for OYERS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 OYERS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OYERS 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 90.1% of games, misses completely in 9.9%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,950 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe OYERS 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OYERS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#7,950 Rank among openers
Opening with OYERS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,950 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
863
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
30
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
17%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

OYERS can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

268 answers
236 answers
197 answers
164 answers
132 answers
122 answers
114 answers
106 answers
95 answers
72 answers
59 answers
57 answers
54 answers
49 answers
48 answers
44 answers
38 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1Y4E1R1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing OYERS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OYERS:

11% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
10% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
8% chance
Suggested:
PATEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.3%
LIANE 5.36 bits
9.9%
PLAIT 5.88 bits
8.3%
PATEE 4.65 bits
6.9%
TONAL 5.26 bits
5.6%
SLANT 5.33 bits
5.1%
DAILY 4.20 bits
4.8%
TRIAD 4.96 bits
4.5%
APRON 4.15 bits
4.0%
SLANT 4.70 bits
3.0%
NOBLE 4.19 bits

Research on OYERS

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

Optimal play

Opening with OYERS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 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 OYERS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it OYURZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.