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

BAJRI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of bajra.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use BAJRI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% 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 BAJRI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAJRI 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,480 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BAJRI 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAJRI 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,480 Rank among openers
Opening with BAJRI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,480 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
718
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
339
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

BAJRI can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

466 answers
325 answers
286 answers
274 answers
157 answers
122 answers
116 answers
71 answers
63 answers
58 answers
56 answers
54 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1J8R1I1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing BAJRI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAJRI:

20% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
14% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
STOLE 5.94 bits
13.6% →
SIENT 5.34 bits
12.0% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
11.5% →
TOUSE 5.38 bits
6.6% →
CONTE 4.64 bits
5.1% →
SNIDE 4.35 bits
4.9% →
TRACE 4.53 bits
3.0% →
PORTE 3.99 bits
2.6% →
ANVIL 4.62 bits
2.4% →
CLONE 4.67 bits

Research on BAJRI

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAJRI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,482 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 BAJRI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).