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BEVEL

Yes, BEVEL was the Wordle answer on May 26, 2024 (Wordle #1072).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛv.əl/

Noun

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

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

To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer.

Adjective

Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

“a bevel angle”

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: May 26, 2024 (#1072).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 26, 2024 (#1072).

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

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How BEVEL performs as a guess

BEVEL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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 344 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___L B in the 1st position and L in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BEVEL.

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.

3.97 Entropy (bits)
344 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,967 Rank among openers
Opening with BEVEL left 2 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 3.81 average. It ranks #11,967 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
740
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
339
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
33%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

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

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:

783 answers
304 answers
235 answers
141 answers
89 answers
88 answers
75 answers
64 answers
43 answers
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9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1V4E1L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

ROAST COAST SONAR RAINY STALE STEER

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:

33% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
ROAST 5.95 bits
12.8% →
ROAST 5.45 bits
9.9% →
COAST 5.07 bits
5.9% →
SONAR 4.71 bits
3.7% →
RAINY 4.64 bits
3.7% →
STALE 4.64 bits
3.2% →
ROAST 4.74 bits
2.7% →
ROAST 4.64 bits
1.8% →
STEER 4.02 bits
1.7% →
COBRA 4.70 bits

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BEHVUHL.

Rhymes with LEVEL DEVIL REVEL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BEVEL is a kind of edge or tool.

Synonyms cant

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).