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

BEANY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling or characteristic of beans.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use BEANY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BEANY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEANY 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,236 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BEANY 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEANY 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,236 Rank among openers
Opening with BEANY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,236 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
886
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
44%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

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

351 answers
320 answers
168 answers
143 answers
136 answers
116 answers
84 answers
80 answers
75 answers
66 answers
64 answers
59 answers
50 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1N1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing BEANY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEANY:

15% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
13% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SIREE 5.34 bits
13.4% →
SHORT 6.01 bits
7.0% →
CAROL 5.45 bits
6.0% →
SIDLE 4.18 bits
5.7% →
TARSE 4.74 bits
4.9% →
SLART 4.70 bits
3.5% →
SIDER 4.66 bits
3.4% →
DETER 4.45 bits
3.1% →
TONIC 4.83 bits
2.8% →
SLART 3.93 bits

Research on BEANY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEANY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,632 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 BEANY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEANY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).