5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BAMMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbami/

Adjective

Crazy.

Noun

A crazy person; wacko.

Noun

Jamaican cassava flatbread.

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 BAMMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAMMY 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 62.0% of games, misses completely in 38.0%, and leaves about 453 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,534 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__M_ B in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRINE ALERT SILER CLOTE TOILE NOIRE
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.44 Entropy (bits)
453 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BAMMY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,534 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BAMMY ranks #13,534 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
635
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
374
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
35%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

896
427
182
154
86
69
65
41
41
34
30
27
26
26
25
24
20
19
19
18
11
8
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6
6
6
6
6
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAMMY:

38% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
18% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
8% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.0% →
TRINE 6.14 bits
18.1% →
ALERT 5.55 bits
7.7% →
SILER 4.60 bits
6.5% →
CLOTE 4.76 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 5.06 bits
2.9% →
NOIRE 5.21 bits
2.8% →
SLART 3.45 bits
1.7% →
SLART 4.27 bits
1.7% →
REALM 4.55 bits
1.4% →
SLADE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1M3M3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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