5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BIDON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbiːdɒn//-dɒ̃//ˈbidɑn/

Noun

A bottle or flask for holding a beverage such as water or wine; (specifically, sports) a water bottle which can be squeezed to squirt the beverage out of the nozzle, especially (cycling) one designed for mounting on a bicycle.

Noun

A container for holding a liquid.

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 BIDON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIDON 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 72.2% of games, misses completely in 27.8%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,994 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___N B in the 1st position and N in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SOREL TRACE SALET CRATE TALER
Words starting with B Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.43 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BIDON 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,994 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BIDON ranks #2,994 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,166
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
26%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

655
274
185
149
94
82
75
64
55
53
50
37
37
31
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25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIDON:

28% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
8% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.8% →
SLATE 6.40 bits
11.6% →
SOREL 5.32 bits
7.8% →
TRACE 5.55 bits
6.3% →
SLATE 5.30 bits
4.0% →
SALET 4.75 bits
3.5% →
CRATE 5.18 bits
3.2% →
SALET 4.49 bits
2.7% →
TALER 5.15 bits
2.3% →
TALER 4.51 bits
2.2% →
CRATE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1D2O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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