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BEARD

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

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.

Etymology

From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BIHRD.

Rhymes with WEIRD EARED

In a sentence

I don't have a beard.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have a beard now.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use BEARD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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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).

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BEARD in Connections

2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How BEARD performs as a guess

BEARD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,663 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEARD 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.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,663 Rank among openers
Opening with BEARD 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 3.63 average. It 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

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

BEARD can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

374 answers
232 answers
192 answers
150 answers
130 answers
102 answers
95 answers
74 answers
60 answers
56 answers
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47 answers
43 answers
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28 answers
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15 answers

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.

Try next

SOILY STILE NATAL TOISE GROUT SALET

Strategy after playing BEARD

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

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.

15.7% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
9.7% →
STILE 5.47 bits
8.1% →
NATAL 5.15 bits
6.3% →
TOISE 4.58 bits
5.5% →
GROUT 5.01 bits
4.3% →
SALET 4.62 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.61 bits
3.1% →
CAROL 4.62 bits
2.5% →
TAPER 3.59 bits
2.3% →
SENTE 4.06 bits

Research on BEARD

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEARD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #943 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 BEARD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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
BEARD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 94 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).