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

BIALI

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

No dictionary definition for BIALI is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 BIALI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIALI 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 74.5% of games, misses completely in 25.5%, and leaves about 254 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,999 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 BIALI 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)
254 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIALI 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,999 Rank among openers
Opening with BIALI 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,999 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
772
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
33%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

BIALI can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

606 answers
295 answers
216 answers
175 answers
141 answers
124 answers
123 answers
60 answers
57 answers
55 answers
53 answers
49 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1A1L1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing BIALI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIALI:

26% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TONER
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.5%
TORSE 6.23 bits
12.4%
TONER 5.37 bits
9.1%
TRINE 5.61 bits
7.4%
TRUCE 5.07 bits
5.9%
SOUCE 5.13 bits
5.2%
RONTE 4.74 bits
5.2%
RONTE 4.62 bits
2.5%
NADIR 4.47 bits
2.4%
SOLDE 4.16 bits
2.3%
TRICE 4.21 bits

Research on BIALI

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIALI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,214 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,124 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it BEEAHLEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.