5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

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 v5 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.

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

Try next

SPILT SIREE ROOST SATYR TALER TORSE
Words starting with B Words ending with O

First-turn measures

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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#5,254 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEANO 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 (3.45 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

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

253
248
200
160
137
121
115
90
67
66
65
48
45
43
41
34
30
29
27
25
23
23
23
22
20
20
18
18
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEANO:

11% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
11% 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 5.66 bits
10.5% →
SIREE 5.39 bits
8.5% →
ROOST 5.08 bits
6.8% →
SATYR 4.98 bits
5.8% →
TALER 4.74 bits
5.1% →
TORSE 4.62 bits
4.9% →
SLART 4.56 bits
3.8% →
DETER 4.41 bits
2.8% →
SIDER 4.70 bits
2.8% →
MOLAR 4.36 bits

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.