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

BEWET

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To wet or moisten profusely.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English beweten, biweten, equivalent to be- + wet.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BEWET in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BEWET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEWET 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 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 295 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,739 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BEWET 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.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
295 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEWET 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,739 Rank among openers
Opening with BEWET left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,739 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
715
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
15

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
37%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

BEWET can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

706 answers
293 answers
207 answers
145 answers
133 answers
86 answers
81 answers
73 answers
73 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1W4E1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing BEWET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEWET:

30% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.6% →
CAROL 5.85 bits
12.3% →
ARISE 5.22 bits
8.7% →
SONAR 5.24 bits
6.1% →
RAINY 4.47 bits
5.6% →
SONAR 4.90 bits
3.6% →
LAIRY 4.71 bits
3.4% →
SLATE 4.56 bits
3.1% →
SONAR 4.81 bits
3.1% →
SOLAR 4.67 bits
1.6% →
RANSE 3.85 bits

Research on BEWET

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEWET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,108 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,924 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80; proven optimal play reaches 3.79. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).