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BEING

Yes, BEING was the Wordle answer on May 17, 2022 (Wordle #332).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiː.ɪŋ//ˈbiːŋ//ˈbi.ɪŋ/

Verb

present participle and gerund of be

Noun

A living creature.

Noun

The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.

Conjunction

Given that; since.

Alternative forms: beeing, beïng

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: May 17, 2022 (#332).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 17, 2022 (#332).

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

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How BEING performs as a guess

BEING 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 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,843 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___G B in the 1st position and G in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _E__G E in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEING 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEING 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,843 Rank among openers
Opening with BEING left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,843 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
859
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
32%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
E K I N G
B E I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BEING in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BEING can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

506 answers
387 answers
152 answers
127 answers
92 answers
88 answers
75 answers
65 answers
62 answers
61 answers
59 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1I1N1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLART ROAST SALTY CANON OAKEN CRATE

Strategy after playing BEING

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEING:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
16% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
6% chance
Suggested:
SALTY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3% →
SLART 6.00 bits
16.3% →
ROAST 5.61 bits
6.4% →
SALTY 4.94 bits
5.3% →
SLART 4.93 bits
3.9% →
CANON 4.96 bits
3.7% →
SLART 4.97 bits
3.2% →
OAKEN 4.42 bits
2.7% →
CRATE 4.22 bits
2.6% →
ARGUE 4.61 bits
2.6% →
SAURY 4.76 bits

Research on BEING

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEING, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #5,941 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 #2,756 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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 first syllable Say it BEEIHNG.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BEING is a kind of state or cause.

Synonyms existence organism

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEING sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 891 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.

In a sentence

I like being with you.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I like being with her.
© tatoeba.org contributor CH (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.