5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BANNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bænz/

Noun

The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).

Noun

Any public announcement of an upcoming event.

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 BANNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BANNS 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,098 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT STIRE TRICE THALE INTER
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BANNS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#10,098 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BANNS ranks #10,098 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
261
6 guesses
14
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:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

642
292
279
158
129
102
74
69
65
44
44
37
35
34
31
27
26
24
23
19
16
14
14
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10
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BANNS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
12% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
12.4% →
ALERT 5.57 bits
11.8% →
STIRE 5.48 bits
6.7% →
TRICE 4.65 bits
5.5% →
THALE 4.73 bits
4.3% →
INTER 4.98 bits
3.1% →
TOILE 5.15 bits
2.9% →
GOIER 4.69 bits
2.8% →
COURE 4.41 bits
1.9% →
GRICE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1N1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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