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BAKER

Yes, BAKER was the Wordle answer on November 16, 2022 (Wordle #515).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kə//ˈbeɪ.kɚ//ˈbe.kəɾ/

Noun

A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.

Noun

A portable oven for baking.

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

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BAYKUR.

Rhymes with MAKER TAKER LAKER FAKER SAKER

In a sentence

He is not a baker.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
She is not a baker.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use BAKER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 16, 2022 (#515).

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BAKER in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How BAKER performs as a guess

BAKER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,463 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___R B in the 1st position and R in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position BA_ER B in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BAKER 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.

4.79 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAKER 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,463 Rank among openers
Opening with BAKER 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,463 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
P A N S Y
W A F E R
B A K E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BAKER in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

BAKER can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

387 answers
252 answers
177 answers
159 answers
125 answers
124 answers
118 answers
97 answers
90 answers
87 answers
61 answers
60 answers
41 answers
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12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1K5E1R1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SOILY SEINE SLANT COURT TOISE DEALT

Strategy after playing BAKER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAKER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
10.6% →
SEINE 5.40 bits
7.4% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
6.7% →
COURT 5.07 bits
5.2% →
TOISE 4.59 bits
5.2% →
DEALT 4.92 bits
4.9% →
SONLY 4.41 bits
4.1% →
SOILY 3.46 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.24 bits
3.6% →
SONLY 4.22 bits

Research on BAKER

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAKER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,549 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 BAKER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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
BAKER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 17 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 90 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).