5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

BALER

Yes, BALER was the Wordle answer on July 5, 2025 (Wordle #1477).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.

“Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale.”

Noun

A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.

“Hank worked as a baler for Farmer Jones part time, to make ends meet.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 5, 2025 (#1477).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BALER performs as a guess

BALER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,324 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

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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

Try next

HOIST SEINE COURT TOISE CLOUT STAIN
Words starting with B Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.33 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BALER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,324 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BALER ranks #2,324 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
10
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
35%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
A B Y S S
B A L E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BALER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

301
187
149
122
107
106
93
85
84
84
82
67
57
55
54
34
34
31
28
27
25
25
23
20
19
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16
15
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BALER:

13% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
6% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
HOIST 5.87 bits
7.9% →
SEINE 5.57 bits
6.3% →
COURT 5.23 bits
5.2% →
TOISE 4.54 bits
4.5% →
CLOUT 4.72 bits
4.5% →
STAIN 5.14 bits
3.9% →
NASTY 4.04 bits
3.6% →
COAST 4.24 bits
3.6% →
TOISE 3.37 bits
3.6% →
TRACK 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1L1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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