5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

BEECH

BEECH is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiːt͡ʃ/[ˈbɪi̯t͡ʃ]

Noun

A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.

Noun

The wood of the beech tree.

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

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 BEECH performs as a guess

BEECH 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 69.1% of games, misses completely in 30.9%, and leaves about 326 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,536 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___H B in the 1st position and H in the 5th position B__C_ B in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SALON RAILE CORAL STARY SAINT ROANY
Words starting with B Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
326 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEECH 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,536 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEECH ranks #10,536 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
784
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
293
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
31%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B A D L Y
B E E C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEECH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

729
408
142
95
92
82
67
57
54
53
50
39
38
36
35
32
28
27
27
26
15
13
13
12
11
11
10
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEECH:

31% chance
Suggested:
SALON
17% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
CORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.9% →
SALON 5.78 bits
17.3% →
RAILE 5.29 bits
6.0% →
CORAL 5.34 bits
4.0% →
STARY 4.78 bits
3.9% →
SAINT 5.00 bits
3.5% →
ROANY 4.84 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.98 bits
2.4% →
ROAST 4.40 bits
2.3% →
TARSE 4.69 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1E1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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