5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BELLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɛlz/

Noun

plural of bell

Noun

Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bell

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 BELLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BELLS 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 252 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,569 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ORATE SAINT STAIR CORAL CARTE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
252 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BELLS 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
0.70 Volatility
#10,569 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BELLS ranks #10,569 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
764
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
284
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
27%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

546
388
245
167
142
114
98
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40
37
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33
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BELLS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
16% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
TRAIN 6.01 bits
16.5% →
ORATE 5.24 bits
10.4% →
SAINT 5.26 bits
7.1% →
STAIR 4.83 bits
6.0% →
CORAL 5.02 bits
4.8% →
CARTE 4.47 bits
4.2% →
ARENE 4.49 bits
2.1% →
ROANY 4.54 bits
1.7% →
DAILY 4.06 bits
1.6% →
SLAIN 4.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1L1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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