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BELLY

Yes, BELLY was the Wordle answer on August 16, 2021 (Wordle #58).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛli/

Noun

The abdomen (especially a fat one).

“You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”

Noun

stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)

“My belly was full of wine.”

Verb

To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

Verb

To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

Alternative forms: bellie

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: August 16, 2021 (#58).

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

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How BELLY performs as a guess

BELLY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 312 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,309 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN STAIR SAUNT COAST AINEE RANSE
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
312 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BELLY 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#12,309 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BELLY ranks #12,309 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
32
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
36%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B E L C H
B E L L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BELLY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

592
527
198
167
116
113
49
35
32
32
31
29
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25
23
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BELLY:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
22% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
SAUNT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
TRAIN 6.15 bits
22.3% →
STAIR 5.49 bits
8.4% →
SAUNT 4.70 bits
7.1% →
COAST 5.03 bits
4.9% →
AINEE 4.50 bits
4.8% →
RANSE 4.75 bits
2.1% →
SONAR 4.70 bits
1.5% →
COBRA 4.59 bits
1.4% →
SAINT 4.18 bits
1.4% →
TRADE 3.91 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1L1L1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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