5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BHAVA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A feeling or mood, especially one of maturation that arises from understanding of the continuity of life and death (reincarnation).

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 BHAVA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BHAVA 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 59.8% of games, misses completely in 40.2%, and leaves about 479 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,957 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

B___A B in the 1st position and A in the 5th position B__V_ B in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _H__A H in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER STIRE CLOTE TRICE LOVER
Words starting with B Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.34 Entropy (bits)
479 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BHAVA 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,957 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BHAVA ranks #13,957 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
615
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
401
6 guesses
23
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
28%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

949
378
184
140
97
96
61
44
36
35
33
31
27
27
23
22
20
19
19
15
13
9
9
6
6
5
5
3
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BHAVA:

40% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.2% →
TOILE 5.93 bits
16.0% →
TALER 5.49 bits
7.8% →
STIRE 5.09 bits
5.9% →
CLOTE 4.93 bits
4.1% →
TOILE 5.12 bits
4.1% →
TRICE 5.19 bits
2.6% →
LOVER 4.89 bits
1.9% →
ROUTE 4.87 bits
1.5% →
SILER 3.65 bits
1.5% →
CARET 3.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3H4A1V4A1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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