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BEEFY

Yes, BEEFY was the Wordle answer on January 26, 2023 (Wordle #586).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiːfi/

Adjective

Similar to, or tasting like beef.

Adjective

Containing 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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 26, 2023 (#586).

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

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How BEEFY performs as a guess

BEEFY 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 376 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,312 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__F_ B in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

COAST RAISE SORAL SLART SONAR SLANT
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.65 Entropy (bits)
376 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEEFY 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,312 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEEFY ranks #13,312 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
655
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
353
6 guesses
22
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)
68%
Green tile
37%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEEFY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

744
484
238
86
86
76
75
52
51
43
36
36
33
31
30
23
22
22
21
18
14
13
11
10
8
7
6
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEEFY:

32% chance
Suggested:
COAST
21% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
COAST 5.95 bits
20.5% →
RAISE 5.27 bits
10.1% →
SORAL 4.77 bits
3.6% →
SLART 5.03 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.78 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.92 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.88 bits
2.2% →
SANER 4.16 bits
2.2% →
CRUET 4.17 bits
1.8% →
CUBIT 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1E1F4Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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