5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BEFOG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To envelop in fog or smoke.

Verb

To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).

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 BEFOG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEFOG 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,238 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___G B in the 1st position and G in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__G E in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT STAIR COURT SLART TORSE GRAIN
Words starting with B Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.05 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEFOG 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#10,238 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEFOG ranks #10,238 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
24%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

543
453
237
146
139
78
72
72
66
57
41
37
30
30
27
25
23
19
18
18
17
16
13
12
11
10
9
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEFOG:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
19% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
10% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
SAINT 5.93 bits
19.2% →
STAIR 5.51 bits
10.0% →
COURT 5.04 bits
6.2% →
SLART 4.97 bits
5.9% →
TORSE 4.44 bits
3.3% →
SAINT 4.48 bits
3.1% →
GRAIN 4.76 bits
3.1% →
RAILE 4.78 bits
2.8% →
SAINT 5.07 bits
2.4% →
SLANT 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1F4O1G2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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