5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BANTU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbæntu/

Noun

A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.

Noun

The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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 BANTU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BANTU 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,568 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___U B in the 1st position and U in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__U A in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER PEARL SHOER CURSE SIREN SOREL
Words starting with B Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.61 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BANTU 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
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#4,568 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BANTU ranks #4,568 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
13
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:
ANTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

466
265
182
172
135
126
106
79
57
55
48
46
45
39
34
29
29
24
23
22
20
20
20
19
19
18
17
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14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BANTU:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
PEARL
8% chance
Suggested:
SHOER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
SOLER 5.96 bits
11.2% →
PEARL 5.44 bits
7.7% →
SHOER 5.50 bits
7.3% →
CURSE 5.19 bits
5.7% →
SIREN 5.08 bits
5.3% →
SOREL 4.73 bits
4.5% →
SERAL 5.05 bits
3.4% →
GRISE 4.73 bits
2.4% →
SOLER 4.64 bits
2.3% →
DRICE 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1N1T1U1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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