Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

BEMIX

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To mix around or about; mingle.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use BEMIX in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BEMIX performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEMIX 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 327 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,167 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BEMIX 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.

3.74 Entropy (bits)
327 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEMIX 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,167 Rank among openers
Opening with BEMIX left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,167 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
681
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
351
6 guesses
30

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
24%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

BEMIX can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

634 answers
492 answers
237 answers
155 answers
154 answers
99 answers
95 answers
66 answers
48 answers
37 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1M3I1X8
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing BEMIX

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEMIX:

27% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
21% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
ROAST 5.98 bits
20.6% →
SOLAR 5.48 bits
9.9% →
SLANT 5.07 bits
6.5% →
RINSE 4.73 bits
6.5% →
REATE 4.59 bits
4.2% →
SORAL 5.00 bits
4.0% →
SLART 4.99 bits
2.8% →
ROANY 4.82 bits
2.0% →
TARSE 4.56 bits
1.6% →
GLARE 4.23 bits

Research on BEMIX

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEMIX, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,556 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #5,980 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).