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

BACCO

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use BACCO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How BACCO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BACCO 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 312 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,035 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe BACCO 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.

3.88 Entropy (bits)
312 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BACCO 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,035 Rank among openers
Opening with BACCO left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,035 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
717
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
17

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

BACCO can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

649 answers
356 answers
352 answers
194 answers
78 answers
69 answers
66 answers
65 answers
61 answers
57 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
13 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1C3C3O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing BACCO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BACCO:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
14.9% →
SLATE 5.62 bits
14.8% →
RONTE 5.28 bits
8.1% →
SLYER 4.72 bits
3.3% →
TONAL 4.34 bits
2.9% →
SLIER 4.91 bits
2.8% →
SHIEL 4.91 bits
2.7% →
TUILE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
STIRE 4.55 bits
2.4% →
CRONE 4.50 bits

Research on BACCO

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

Optimal play

Opening with BACCO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,278 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,667 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BACCO sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).