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

BEZES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of bez

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

Use BEZES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 84.5% 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 BEZES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEZES 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 67.2% of games, misses completely in 32.8%, and leaves about 369 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,962 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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 BEZES 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.

3.59 Entropy (bits)
369 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEZES 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,962 Rank among openers
Opening with BEZES left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #13,962 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
614
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
404
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
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Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
30%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

BEZES can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

781 answers
324 answers
275 answers
186 answers
151 answers
122 answers
78 answers
45 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1Z10E1S1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing BEZES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEZES:

33% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.8% →
TRAIL 5.82 bits
13.6% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
11.5% →
TIARE 5.21 bits
7.8% →
RAINY 4.34 bits
6.3% →
SLART 4.73 bits
5.1% →
CLARY 4.93 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.78 bits
1.9% →
LABOR 4.84 bits
1.5% →
TRACE 3.89 bits
1.3% →
SONAR 3.95 bits

Research on BEZES

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEZES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,558 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 BEZES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90; proven optimal play reaches 3.89. 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).