5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BARMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːmi//ˈbɑɹmi/

Adjective

Containing, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).

Adjective

Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.

Noun

plural of barma (“a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems”)

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 BARMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BARMY 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 219 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,265 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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

TOILE TOISE SLATE TRACE SIDLE TUILE
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
219 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BARMY 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,265 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BARMY ranks #5,265 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
10
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:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
37%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

529
302
269
143
137
101
65
65
57
48
39
34
25
25
24
23
22
22
20
18
18
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16
15
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15
14
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BARMY:

22% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
12.8% →
TOISE 5.37 bits
11.4% →
SLATE 5.68 bits
6.1% →
TRACE 4.91 bits
5.8% →
SIDLE 4.70 bits
4.3% →
TUILE 4.73 bits
2.8% →
TOILE 5.16 bits
2.8% →
TOUSE 4.92 bits
2.4% →
CLINE 4.74 bits
2.0% →
SLANT 3.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1R1M3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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