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BAFTA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbæftə/

Noun

A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.

Noun

An imitation of this fabric.

Alternative forms: baft, baftae, baftah, bufta

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 BAFTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAFTA 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 66.4% of games, misses completely in 33.6%, and leaves about 367 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,935 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

B___A B in the 1st position and A in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BAFTA.

First-turn measures

All four describe BAFTA 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.

3.73 Entropy (bits)
367 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAFTA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,935 Rank among openers
Opening with BAFTA left 1 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 #11,935 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
27%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

BAFTA can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

798 answers
301 answers
277 answers
156 answers
112 answers
88 answers
87 answers
65 answers
51 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1F4T1A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

NOIRE SLANE SIREN SLYER LEAST URINE

Strategy after playing BAFTA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAFTA:

34% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
SIREN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.6% →
NOIRE 5.96 bits
12.7% →
SLANE 5.53 bits
11.7% →
SIREN 5.49 bits
6.6% →
SLYER 4.87 bits
4.7% →
LEAST 4.96 bits
3.7% →
URINE 4.92 bits
3.7% →
ROULE 5.04 bits
2.7% →
SHONE 4.63 bits
2.1% →
TRUCE 3.90 bits
1.4% →
ROULE 4.71 bits

Research on BAFTA

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAFTA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,306 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,367 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BAFTUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BAFTA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).