5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BAAED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of baa

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 BAAED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAAED 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,416 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.

B___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position BA_ED B in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST STIRE SENOR SLART SATYR TONAL
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.41 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BAAED 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,416 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BAAED ranks #11,416 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
715
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
18
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
45%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

535
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121
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92
77
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAAED:

23% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
14% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
8% chance
Suggested:
SENOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
HOIST 5.86 bits
14.1% →
STIRE 5.30 bits
7.5% →
SENOR 4.43 bits
5.8% →
SLART 4.61 bits
5.1% →
SATYR 4.18 bits
4.9% →
TONAL 5.26 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.50 bits
3.3% →
ALERT 4.42 bits
2.8% →
DROIT 4.59 bits
2.7% →
NOIRE 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1A1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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