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BELIE

Yes, BELIE was the Wordle answer on January 6, 2023 (Wordle #566).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɪˈlaɪ//bəˈlaɪ//biˈlaɪ/

Verb

To give a false representation of.

“Her smooth complexion and dark hair belie her actual age.”

Verb

To contradict, to show (something) to be false.

“Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.”

Alternative forms: bely

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 6, 2023 (#566).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 6, 2023 (#566).

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

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How BELIE performs as a guess

BELIE 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,634 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__I_ B in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BELIE 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BELIE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,634 Rank among openers
Opening with BELIE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,634 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
871
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
269
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
40%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BELIE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BELIE can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

533 answers
202 answers
191 answers
181 answers
162 answers
79 answers
73 answers
69 answers
64 answers
63 answers
56 answers
47 answers
46 answers
43 answers
42 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1L1I1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ROAST SAINT SONAR COAST STARY ALTER

Strategy after playing BELIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BELIE:

22% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
8% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
ROAST 5.98 bits
8.5% →
SAINT 5.18 bits
8.0% →
SONAR 5.16 bits
7.6% →
COAST 5.21 bits
6.8% →
ROAST 5.16 bits
3.3% →
COAST 4.89 bits
3.1% →
STARY 4.83 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.25 bits
2.7% →
ALTER 4.26 bits
2.7% →
DINER 4.56 bits

Research on BELIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BELIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,325 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,426 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, 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 BIHLY.

Rhymes with APPLY REPLY IMPLY THIGH DECRY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BELIE is a kind of vary or represent.

Synonyms contradict

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BELIE 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.

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).