5 Letter Words Starting with O

There are 455 of them. The everyday ones include OTHER, ORDER, OFTEN, OFFER and OLDER.

455 in total, and 41 of them are on the Wordle answer list.

OCEAN, OPERA and OPENS narrow this list fastest. OCEAN leaves at most 88 words in the worst case.

106 of them, including OPENS, OASIS, OVERS, OVENS and ODORS.

Yes. OTHER, ORDER and OFTEN all sit on the Wordle answer list, so the pattern is worth playing for rather than ruling out.

Yes. ORDER and OFFER are two of them. Crossing off a letter after one grey square is the quickest way to miss an answer like these.

Yes. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one. It is not on the Wordle answer list, so keep it for Scrabble.

OTHER. It is the most ordinary word here that the answer list carries, so it is the guess to make when you want to win the round rather than learn from it.

Yes. Every word on this list is a legal guess, including the ones that look wrong. OZENA and OYLET are among them. Only a smaller set sits on the answer list, and those are the ones marked in green.

OAKEN, OCTAL and OCTET. All three are on the answer list, and none is a word you would reach for early, so they are worth remembering once the obvious guesses run out.