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

BIBIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of bibi

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

Use BIBIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 75.8% 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 BIBIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIBIS 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 56.1% of games, misses completely in 43.9%, and leaves about 577 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,646 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 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 BIBIS 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.

2.93 Entropy (bits)
577 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIBIS 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.

3.99 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,646 Rank among openers
Opening with BIBIS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.99 average. It ranks #14,646 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
522
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
486
6 guesses
33

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
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Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
25%
All gray
44%

Feedback distribution

BIBIS can come back 47 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1047 answers
431 answers
191 answers
143 answers
113 answers
106 answers
84 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1B3I1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing BIBIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIBIS:

44% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
18% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.9% →
ROATE 6.05 bits
18.1% →
STARE 5.63 bits
8.0% →
TRONE 5.26 bits
6.0% →
RONTE 4.78 bits
4.7% →
OLATE 5.18 bits
4.4% →
RATEL 5.06 bits
3.5% →
LEANT 4.14 bits
1.3% →
SMOTE 3.83 bits
1.3% →
CATER 4.67 bits
1.1% →
CLOTE 4.10 bits

Research on BIBIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIBIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.98 guesses and ranks #14,630 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.17 guesses at best and is rank #7,336 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.99, at or below the proven-optimal 3.98, 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).