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BEAUT

Yes, BEAUT was the Wordle answer on September 17, 2024 (Wordle #1186).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bjuːt//bjut//bjʉt/

Noun

Something or someone that is physically attractive.

“That new car of yours is a real beaut.”

Noun

Something that is a remarkable example of its type.

Adjective

Beautiful, splendid.

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: September 17, 2024 (#1186).

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

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How BEAUT performs as a guess

BEAUT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,354 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___T B in the 1st position and T in the 5th position B__U_ B in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEAUT 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.

5.11 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEAUT 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,354 Rank among openers
Opening with BEAUT 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,354 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
888
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
37%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L E A N S
B E A U T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEAUT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BEAUT can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

291 answers
275 answers
204 answers
135 answers
121 answers
112 answers
94 answers
85 answers
68 answers
65 answers
58 answers
55 answers
49 answers
41 answers
39 answers
32 answers
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27 answers
25 answers
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19 answers
18 answers
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17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1A1U1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLIER SONLY RAYON MARLE CLASP GENRE

Strategy after playing BEAUT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEAUT:

12% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
12% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
9% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.3% →
SLIER 5.29 bits
11.6% →
SONLY 5.53 bits
8.6% →
RAYON 4.99 bits
5.7% →
SONLY 4.51 bits
5.1% →
MARLE 4.58 bits
4.7% →
CLASP 4.48 bits
4.0% →
GENRE 4.26 bits
3.6% →
NORTH 5.00 bits
2.9% →
SIREE 4.78 bits
2.7% →
SATYR 4.24 bits

Research on BEAUT

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEAUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,582 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 BEAUT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BOHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BEAUT is a kind of example.

Synonyms beauty

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEAUT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).