5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BANGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bæŋ(ɡ)z/

Noun

plural of bang

Noun

Hair hanging over the forehead.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bang

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 BANGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BANGS 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,347 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__G_ B in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET PORTE THALE DROLE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.41 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BANGS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#4,347 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BANGS ranks #4,347 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
886
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
8
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
27%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

541
263
258
138
134
124
68
66
62
58
55
43
33
33
32
31
28
27
25
23
21
20
20
20
14
14
13
13
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BANGS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
TOILE 6.04 bits
11.2% →
TOILE 5.45 bits
10.9% →
ALERT 5.55 bits
5.9% →
ROUET 5.23 bits
5.7% →
PORTE 4.81 bits
5.3% →
THALE 4.76 bits
2.9% →
DROLE 5.11 bits
2.8% →
TOILE 5.04 bits
2.6% →
TRICE 4.19 bits
2.5% →
ROUET 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1N1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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