5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BESAT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past of besit

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 BESAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BESAT 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 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,181 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___T B in the 1st position and T in the 5th position B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

COULD DROLE CAIRN LARGE SLINK SPIRE
Words starting with B Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.22 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BESAT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,181 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BESAT ranks #1,181 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
145
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

303
251
204
119
110
96
86
84
73
62
52
48
45
38
38
38
36
33
32
31
26
23
22
20
19
18
18
18
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BESAT:

13% chance
Suggested:
COULD
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
COULD 5.62 bits
10.6% →
DROLE 5.28 bits
8.7% →
CAIRN 5.17 bits
5.0% →
LARGE 4.71 bits
4.7% →
SLINK 4.77 bits
4.1% →
SPIRE 4.71 bits
3.6% →
NORTH 5.11 bits
3.6% →
RENEW 4.25 bits
3.1% →
CLASH 4.30 bits
2.6% →
TRITE 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1S1A1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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