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BENCH

Yes, BENCH was the Wordle answer on July 6, 2021 (Wordle #17).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/[ˈbɛnt͡ʃ]/ˈbent͡ʃ/

Noun

A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.

“They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.”

Noun

The seat where the judges sit in court.

“They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.”

Verb

To remove a player from play.

“They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.”

Verb

To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.

Alternative forms: benk, bink

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: July 6, 2021 (#17).

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

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How BENCH performs as a guess

BENCH 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 78.3% of games, misses completely in 21.7%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,342 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___H B in the 1st position and H in the 5th position B__C_ B in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SORAL STAIR ROAST SLART ANISE CORAL
Words starting with B Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BENCH 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,342 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BENCH ranks #6,342 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
881
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BENCH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

511
406
169
113
109
107
71
65
63
55
52
49
40
33
29
28
27
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22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BENCH:

22% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
17% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
7% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.7% →
SORAL 5.97 bits
17.2% →
STAIR 5.45 bits
7.2% →
ROAST 5.23 bits
4.8% →
SLART 4.81 bits
4.6% →
ANISE 4.52 bits
4.5% →
CORAL 5.39 bits
3.0% →
STAIR 4.82 bits
2.8% →
TARSE 4.98 bits
2.7% →
LAREE 4.58 bits
2.3% →
SOLAR 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1N1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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