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BEFIT

Yes, BEFIT was the Wordle answer on March 26, 2026 (Wordle #1741).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɪˈfɪt/

Verb

to be fit for

“His conduct was not befitting an officer of his station.”

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: March 26, 2026 (#1741).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 26, 2026 (#1741).

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

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How BEFIT performs as a guess

BEFIT 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,031 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__I_ B in the 1st position and I 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 BEFIT.

First-turn measures

All four describe BEFIT 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEFIT 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,031 Rank among openers
Opening with BEFIT left 2 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 3.70 average. It ranks #7,031 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
845
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
E D I C T
B E F I T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEFIT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BEFIT can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

475 answers
366 answers
153 answers
135 answers
126 answers
117 answers
102 answers
69 answers
68 answers
56 answers
54 answers
54 answers
46 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1F4I1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

CAROL SOLAR SONLY SONAR RINSE CARLE

Strategy after playing BEFIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEFIT:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
6% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
CAROL 5.93 bits
15.4% →
SOLAR 5.44 bits
6.4% →
SONLY 4.84 bits
5.7% →
SONAR 5.19 bits
5.3% →
RINSE 4.75 bits
4.9% →
CARLE 4.62 bits
4.3% →
SAREE 4.89 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 4.32 bits
2.9% →
SNARY 4.74 bits
2.4% →
SONAR 4.81 bits

Research on BEFIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEFIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,472 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,864 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 second syllable Say it BIHFIHT.

Rhymes with SPLIT ADMIT UNFIT BRITT REMIT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BEFIT is a kind of check.

Synonyms suit

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEFIT 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

Anger does not befit a philosopher.
© tatoeba.org contributor Zaphod (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).