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

BIACH

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of biatch.

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

Use BIACH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% 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 BIACH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIACH 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,993 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 BIACH 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIACH 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,993 Rank among openers
Opening with BIACH left 1 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 3.67 average. It ranks #4,993 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
909
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

BIACH can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

528 answers
330 answers
209 answers
138 answers
122 answers
92 answers
80 answers
66 answers
62 answers
61 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1A1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing BIACH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIACH:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
SOLER 6.02 bits
13.8% →
TALER 5.61 bits
8.8% →
TRONE 5.40 bits
5.8% →
STURE 4.99 bits
5.1% →
SOLED 4.55 bits
3.9% →
ROUSE 5.43 bits
3.4% →
TORSE 5.56 bits
2.8% →
DROLE 4.89 bits
2.6% →
RAINE 4.35 bits
2.6% →
COREY 4.63 bits

Research on BIACH

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIACH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,008 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,072 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

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