5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BEEFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of beef

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of beef

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 BEEFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEEFS 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 324 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,503 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__F_ B in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON RAILE SLANT STAIR CLARY FLOAT
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.83 Entropy (bits)
324 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEEFS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,503 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEEFS ranks #12,503 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
685
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
26%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

692
369
298
143
106
83
78
53
45
36
36
35
34
33
26
24
23
20
17
17
17
15
15
14
11
11
10
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEEFS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALON
16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
TALON 5.75 bits
15.6% →
RAILE 5.23 bits
12.6% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
6.1% →
STAIR 4.57 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 5.02 bits
3.5% →
FLOAT 4.90 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.80 bits
2.2% →
TREAD 4.75 bits
1.9% →
LABOR 4.84 bits
1.5% →
ARIEL 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1E1F4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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