5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

BEARD

Yes, BEARD was the Wordle answer on October 13, 2025 (Wordle #1577).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɪəd/[bɪːd]/bɪɹd/

Noun

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

Noun

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

Verb

To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

“Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”

Verb

To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

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: October 13, 2025 (#1577).

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

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How BEARD performs as a guess

BEARD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,663 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__R_ B in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY STILE NATAL TOISE GROUT SALET
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEARD 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,663 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEARD ranks #2,663 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,105
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
35%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L A N D
B E A R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEARD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

125 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

369
229
188
149
128
101
95
74
58
54
49
47
43
38
37
36
35
28
27
26
23
21
20
19
17
17
17
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEARD:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
NATAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SOILY 5.71 bits
9.7% →
STILE 5.47 bits
8.0% →
NATAL 5.14 bits
6.3% →
TOISE 4.57 bits
5.4% →
GROUT 5.01 bits
4.3% →
SALET 4.63 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.61 bits
3.1% →
CAROL 4.62 bits
2.5% →
SATEM 3.68 bits
2.3% →
SENTE 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1R1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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