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BEADY

Yes, BEADY was the Wordle answer on June 25, 2022 (Wordle #371).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.di//ˈbi.di/

Adjective

Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

Adjective

Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look)

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: June 25, 2022 (#371).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 25, 2022 (#371).

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

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How BEADY performs as a guess

BEADY 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,584 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEADY 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEADY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,584 Rank among openers
Opening with BEADY 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,584 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
258
6 guesses
20
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)
84%
Green tile
40%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEADY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BEADY can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

387 answers
375 answers
203 answers
157 answers
138 answers
135 answers
90 answers
68 answers
67 answers
65 answers
64 answers
41 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
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18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1D2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SNOUT SIREE TALON TALER SLART SOILY

Strategy after playing BEADY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEADY:

16% chance
Suggested:
SNOUT
16% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
SNOUT 5.87 bits
15.8% →
SIREE 5.40 bits
8.6% →
TALON 5.33 bits
6.6% →
TALER 4.75 bits
5.8% →
SLART 4.71 bits
5.7% →
SOILY 4.24 bits
3.8% →
SIREN 4.59 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.04 bits
2.8% →
DINER 4.66 bits
2.7% →
WORLD 4.56 bits

Research on BEADY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEADY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,296 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 BEADY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.72. 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 BEEDEE.

Rhymes with NEEDY SEEDY REEDY WEEDY DEEDY

Related meanings

Synonyms bright decorated adorned

Opposites dull

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEADY 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).