5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BEARE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete form of bear.

Noun

Obsolete form of bear.

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 BEARE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEARE 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,079 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__R_ B in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY NATAL GROUT INLET TOISE SLANT
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.99 Entropy (bits)
150 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEARE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#8,079 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEARE ranks #8,079 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,137
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
43%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

442
224
153
119
116
108
103
85
56
53
51
50
45
45
43
43
42
28
27
26
20
20
19
19
19
19
18
17
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEARE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
NATAL
6% chance
Suggested:
GROUT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
9.5% →
NATAL 5.09 bits
6.5% →
GROUT 4.89 bits
5.0% →
INLET 5.01 bits
4.9% →
SOILY 4.65 bits
4.6% →
TOISE 3.63 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 4.64 bits
3.6% →
CAROL 4.52 bits
2.4% →
CLEAN 4.31 bits
2.2% →
SAULT 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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