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

BACHA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A dancing boy in parts of Central Asia.

Alternative forms: batcha

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 BACHA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BACHA 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 64.1% of games, misses completely in 35.9%, and leaves about 395 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,155 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe BACHA 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.

3.65 Entropy (bits)
395 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BACHA 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,155 Rank among openers
Opening with BACHA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,155 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
24%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

BACHA can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

853 answers
321 answers
171 answers
159 answers
153 answers
96 answers
72 answers
68 answers
50 answers
37 answers
33 answers
33 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1C3H4A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing BACHA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BACHA:

36% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
14% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
SLYER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.9%
RIONE 5.96 bits
13.5%
ALERT 5.58 bits
7.2%
SLYER 4.82 bits
6.7%
CRINE 5.40 bits
6.4%
TORSE 5.83 bits
4.0%
ROULE 5.13 bits
3.0%
SLANE 4.70 bits
2.9%
RIONE 4.33 bits
2.1%
REAST 4.31 bits
1.6%
LOURE 4.74 bits

Research on BACHA

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

Optimal play

Opening with BACHA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,653 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 BACHA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 BACHUH.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BACHA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

In a sentence

Daniel died at the Mustapha Bacha Hospital.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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