5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BAGUA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The eight trigrams used in Daoist cosmology.

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 BAGUA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAGUA 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 65.6% of games, misses completely in 34.4%, and leaves about 393 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,154 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___A B in the 1st position and A in the 5th position B__U_ B in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SIREN SLATE CURSE RONTE DRONE CLOTE
Words starting with B Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
393 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.4% 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 opener: v5 benchmark

How BAGUA 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,154 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BAGUA ranks #13,154 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
369
6 guesses
27
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:
AU

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

812
385
229
193
100
70
51
43
42
34
27
27
27
26
24
19
18
17
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14
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6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAGUA:

34% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
CURSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.4% →
SIREN 5.94 bits
16.3% →
SLATE 5.56 bits
9.7% →
CURSE 5.00 bits
8.2% →
RONTE 4.82 bits
4.2% →
DRONE 5.33 bits
3.0% →
CLOTE 4.63 bits
2.2% →
SCONE 4.66 bits
1.8% →
TRINE 4.38 bits
1.8% →
SONDE 4.20 bits
1.4% →
SOLDE 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1G2U1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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