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BEACH

Yes, BEACH was the Wordle answer on August 21, 2023 (Wordle #793).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiːt͡ʃ/[ˈbɪi̯t͡ʃ]

Noun

The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.

Noun

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

Verb

To run aground on a beach.

Verb

To run (something) aground on a beach.

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: August 21, 2023 (#793).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 21, 2023 (#793).

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

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How BEACH performs as a guess

BEACH 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,997 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___H B in the 1st position and H in the 5th position B__C_ B in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEACH 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEACH 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,997 Rank among openers
Opening with BEACH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #5,997 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
902
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
229
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
33%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
B E A C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEACH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

394 answers
349 answers
242 answers
143 answers
110 answers
96 answers
76 answers
65 answers
53 answers
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38 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SOILY SIREE TALON ALTER SIREN SLART

Strategy after playing BEACH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEACH:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
15% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
14.7% →
SIREE 5.30 bits
10.2% →
TALON 5.28 bits
6.0% →
ALTER 4.72 bits
4.6% →
SIREN 4.47 bits
4.0% →
SLART 4.62 bits
3.2% →
SOILY 4.96 bits
2.7% →
SHIRT 4.79 bits
2.2% →
SIREE 4.79 bits
2.1% →
SLART 3.79 bits

Research on BEACH

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEACH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,368 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 BEACH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

One syllable Say it BEECH.

Rhymes with REACH TEACH PEACH BEECH LEACH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BEACH is a kind of formation or land.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEACH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 83 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 92 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

And this is a beach.
© tatoeba.org contributor lukaszpp (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He was on the beach.
© tatoeba.org contributor MarijnKp (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).