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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

BAYER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of bay: more bay

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 BAYER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAYER 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 87.5% of games, misses completely in 12.5%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,789 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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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 BAYER.

First-turn measures

All four describe BAYER 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAYER 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,789 Rank among openers
Opening with BAYER left 1 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,789 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
831
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
33%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

BAYER can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

296 answers
236 answers
182 answers
145 answers
136 answers
130 answers
112 answers
96 answers
89 answers
84 answers
73 answers
59 answers
51 answers
37 answers
37 answers
35 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
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22 answers
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18 answers
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14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1Y4E1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

HOIST SEINE SLANT SOILY PRINT POISE

Strategy after playing BAYER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAYER:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
10% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.5% →
HOIST 5.86 bits
9.9% →
SEINE 5.35 bits
7.7% →
SLANT 5.38 bits
6.1% →
SOILY 4.42 bits
5.7% →
PRINT 5.00 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 5.07 bits
4.7% →
POISE 4.64 bits
4.0% →
NOISE 3.29 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 4.26 bits
3.5% →
INTEL 4.35 bits

Research on BAYER

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAYER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,331 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 BAYER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. 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 BAYUR.

Rhymes with MAYOR LAYER PAYER SAYER GEYER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BAYER is a kind of medicine.

Synonyms aspirin

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BAYER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).