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

BEVOR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbivɚ//ˈbiːvə/

Noun

A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.

Alternative forms: beaver, bever

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 BEVOR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEVOR 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,976 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

B___R B in the 1st position and R in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BEVOR 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.

4.51 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEVOR 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,976 Rank among openers
Opening with BEVOR left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,976 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
10
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

BEVOR can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

487 answers
319 answers
205 answers
193 answers
129 answers
100 answers
98 answers
89 answers
75 answers
54 answers
48 answers
39 answers
32 answers
26 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1V4O1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLANT TRACE THORN SLATE STONE

Strategy after playing BEVOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEVOR:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
SAINT 6.02 bits
13.4% →
SLANT 5.74 bits
8.6% →
SLANT 5.09 bits
8.1% →
SAINT 5.26 bits
5.4% →
TRACE 4.77 bits
4.2% →
THORN 4.30 bits
4.1% →
SLATE 4.63 bits
3.7% →
SAINT 4.04 bits
3.2% →
STONE 4.29 bits
2.3% →
RAINY 3.90 bits

Research on BEVOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEVOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,668 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with BEVOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 BEHVUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BEVOR sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).