5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BHELS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of bhel

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 BHELS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BHELS 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,580 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN RAINE SAINT FOCAL STAIR REATE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BHELS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,580 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BHELS ranks #5,580 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

411
370
191
161
130
130
96
61
60
42
41
39
39
35
34
30
28
27
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27
23
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BHELS:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
16% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
TRAIN 6.05 bits
15.7% →
RAINE 5.25 bits
8.1% →
SAINT 5.32 bits
6.8% →
FOCAL 4.98 bits
5.5% →
STAIR 4.84 bits
5.5% →
REATE 4.75 bits
4.1% →
TORCH 4.92 bits
2.6% →
IDYLL 4.15 bits
2.5% →
TRADE 4.55 bits
1.8% →
CARTE 4.64 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3H4E1L1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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