BEVEL
Yes, BEVEL was the Wordle answer on May 26, 2024 (Wordle #1072).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛv.əl/
- Noun
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An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
“to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab”
- Noun
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An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square.
- Verb
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To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.
- Adjective
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Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
“a bevel angle”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English *bevel, from Anglo-Norman *baivel (whence obsolete French beauveau) a diminutive of Old French baïf (“open-mouthed”), perhaps from baer (“to gape”), from Medieval Latin *batāre (“to gape, yawn, be open”), probably of imitative origin. If so, then related to Italian badare.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BEHVUHL.
Related meanings
Synonyms cant
Use BEVEL in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 26, 2024 (#1072).
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See what the public sample says →How BEVEL performs as a guess
BEVEL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 346 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,967 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BEVEL 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How BEVEL 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches BEVEL in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BEVEL can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BEVEL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing BEVEL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BEVEL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BEVEL:
Research on BEVEL
Game-tree analysis and word research for BEVEL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BEVEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,082 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,286 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BEVEL sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).