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

BEANO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiːnəʊ/

Noun

A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.

Noun

Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.

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 BEANO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEANO 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 89.3% of games, misses completely in 10.7%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,254 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___O B in the 1st position and O in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEANO 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEANO 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,254 Rank among openers
Opening with BEANO 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,254 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
23
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
3 vowels
Common:
AENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
35%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

BEANO can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

254 answers
248 answers
201 answers
161 answers
138 answers
121 answers
115 answers
91 answers
70 answers
67 answers
65 answers
50 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1N1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SPILT SIREE ROOST SATYR TARSE TORSE

Strategy after playing BEANO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEANO:

11% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
10% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
SPILT 5.67 bits
10.4% →
SIREE 5.39 bits
8.5% →
ROOST 5.08 bits
6.8% →
SATYR 4.98 bits
5.8% →
TARSE 4.71 bits
5.1% →
TORSE 4.62 bits
4.8% →
SLART 4.56 bits
3.8% →
DETER 4.40 bits
2.9% →
SIDER 4.68 bits
2.8% →
MOLAR 4.35 bits

Research on BEANO

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEANO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,368 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 BEANO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 BEENOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BEANO is a kind of game.

Synonyms BINGO LOTTO

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEANO 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).