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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

BATON

Yes, BATON has been the Wordle answer on December 19, 2021 (Wordle #183) and July 3, 2026 (Wordle #1840).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbætɒn//ˈbæt(ə)n//bəˈtɑn/

Noun

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.

Noun

A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.

Verb

To strike with a baton.

“She passed the baton to her successor after retiring.”

Alternative forms: bâton

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used 2 times

Past Wordle answer: December 19, 2021 (#183); July 3, 2026 (#1840).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BATON performs as a guess

BATON is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,531 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___N B in the 1st position and N in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SCARE DROLE SHIER SIDEY SILER
Words starting with B Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.92 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BATON 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,531 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BATON ranks #1,531 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
963
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
15
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:
ANOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L O A T
B A T O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BATON in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

396
241
211
168
132
117
101
77
53
51
43
43
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31
27
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BATON:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
10% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
SLIER 6.09 bits
10.2% →
SCARE 5.43 bits
8.9% →
DROLE 5.22 bits
7.1% →
SHIER 5.60 bits
5.6% →
SIDEY 5.14 bits
5.0% →
SILER 4.70 bits
4.3% →
REAST 4.82 bits
3.3% →
CRUSE 4.80 bits
2.2% →
DRICE 4.49 bits
2.2% →
ANKLE 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1T1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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