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BEEFY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% 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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 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 379 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,312 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEEFY 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.

3.65 Entropy (bits)
379 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.0% 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,312 Rank among openers
Opening with BEEFY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It 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 (3.46 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

BEEFY can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

749 answers
488 answers
240 answers
87 answers
86 answers
76 answers
75 answers
53 answers
52 answers
43 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

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.

Try next

COAST RAISE SORAL SLART SONAR SLANT

Strategy after playing BEEFY

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

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
20.6% →
RAISE 5.28 bits
10.1% →
SORAL 4.78 bits
3.7% →
SLART 4.77 bits
3.6% →
SLART 5.03 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.92 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.88 bits
2.2% →
SANER 4.14 bits
2.2% →
CRUET 4.15 bits
1.8% →
CUBIT 4.69 bits

Research on BEEFY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEEFY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,252 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,774 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BEEFEE.

Rhymes with LEAFY

Related meanings

Synonyms HUSKY robust

Opposites FRAIL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEEFY 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.

In a sentence

He's a beefy guy with a heart of gold.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Though it's vegan, it tastes quite beefy.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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