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

VOEMA

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% 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 VOEMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VOEMA 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,365 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe VOEMA 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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VOEMA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,365 Rank among openers
Opening with VOEMA 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,365 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
22
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
25%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

VOEMA can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

322 answers
320 answers
315 answers
235 answers
159 answers
126 answers
117 answers
78 answers
68 answers
59 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1E1M3A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing VOEMA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOEMA:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
13% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
13% chance
Suggested:
SIREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6%
SLART 5.28 bits
13.5%
SPILT 5.60 bits
13.3%
SIREE 5.28 bits
9.9%
SLART 5.02 bits
6.7%
SNORT 4.98 bits
5.3%
SONLY 3.75 bits
4.9%
SETER 4.68 bits
3.3%
SENOR 4.21 bits
2.9%
TALON 4.43 bits
2.5%
SURGE 3.92 bits

Research on VOEMA

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

Optimal play

Opening with VOEMA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,952 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 VOEMA can 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it VOHMUH. 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.