5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

BARER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who bares or exposes something.

Adjective

comparative form of bare: more bare

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 BARER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BARER 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,660 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BARER.

First-turn measures

All four describe BARER used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BARER 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,660 Rank among openers
Opening with BARER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,660 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

BARER can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

446 answers
268 answers
204 answers
141 answers
130 answers
126 answers
93 answers
90 answers
83 answers
81 answers
62 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
34 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1R1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY SEINE SLANT PRINT SONLY INTEL

Strategy after playing BARER

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BARER.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BARER:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
11.3% →
SEINE 5.40 bits
8.6% →
SLANT 5.33 bits
5.9% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
5.5% →
PRINT 4.90 bits
5.3% →
SONLY 4.42 bits
3.9% →
INTEL 4.27 bits
3.8% →
TRICE 4.55 bits
3.5% →
CHART 4.15 bits
3.4% →
SOILY 3.49 bits

Research on BARER

Game-tree analysis and word research for BARER, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with BARER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,147 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with BARER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BEHRUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BARER is a kind of expose or tell.

Synonyms air simple NAKED PLAIN STRIP SPARE

Opposites covered full wide FANCY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BARER sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).