5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BEIGE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪʒ//ˈbeɪd͡ʒ//ˈbɛjʒ/

Noun

A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.

Noun

Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Adjective

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Adjective

Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

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 BEIGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEIGE 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,827 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__G_ B in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SOLAR SATIN SLART CLARY ROANY
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BEIGE 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,827 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BEIGE ranks #9,827 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
791
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
310
6 guesses
15
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
3 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
40%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

652
237
203
172
117
110
81
68
61
56
48
33
31
28
27
27
25
25
22
21
21
19
19
16
16
14
14
13
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEIGE:

28% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
9% chance
Suggested:
SATIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
ROAST 5.94 bits
10.1% →
SOLAR 5.19 bits
8.6% →
SATIN 4.97 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.29 bits
5.0% →
SLART 5.02 bits
4.7% →
CLARY 5.00 bits
3.4% →
ROANY 4.93 bits
2.9% →
ROANY 4.84 bits
2.6% →
RIPEN 4.41 bits
2.4% →
SLANT 3.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1I1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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