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BAWDY

Yes, BAWDY was the Wordle answer on October 28, 2024 (Wordle #1227).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːdi//ˈbɔ.di//ˈbɑ.di/

Adjective

Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

Adjective

Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.

Noun

A bawdy or lewd person.

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 once

Past Wordle answer: October 28, 2024 (#1227).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 28, 2024 (#1227).

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

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How BAWDY performs as a guess

BAWDY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.9% of games, misses completely in 32.1%, and leaves about 350 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,377 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__D_ B in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BAWDY 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.

3.84 Entropy (bits)
350 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAWDY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#10,377 Rank among openers
Opening with BAWDY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,377 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
746
4 guesses
1,290
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
33%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
D U C H Y
B A W D Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BAWDY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BAWDY can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

762 answers
389 answers
166 answers
161 answers
134 answers
77 answers
77 answers
61 answers
50 answers
38 answers
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35 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1W4D2Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TOISE SLATE CLOTE SILER DINER SIREN

Strategy after playing BAWDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAWDY:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.1% →
TOISE 6.15 bits
16.4% →
SLATE 5.58 bits
7.0% →
CLOTE 4.76 bits
6.8% →
SILER 4.59 bits
5.6% →
DINER 5.44 bits
3.2% →
SIREN 5.30 bits
3.2% →
TUILE 5.00 bits
2.6% →
TRINE 4.57 bits
2.1% →
SLART 3.50 bits
1.6% →
SLART 4.27 bits

Research on BAWDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAWDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,139 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 BAWDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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 BAWDEE.

Rhymes with GAUDY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BAWDY is a kind of filth.

Synonyms DIRTY

Opposites CLEAN

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BAWDY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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