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

BIELD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Boldness, courage; confidence; a feeling of security, assurance.

Noun

Resource, help, relief; a means of help or relief; support; sustenance.

Verb

To make bold, give courage or confidence to.

Verb

To defend, protect or shelter.

Alternative forms: beeld, beild

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 BIELD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIELD 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 184 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,381 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BIELD.

First-turn measures

All four describe BIELD 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
184 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIELD 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,381 Rank among openers
Opening with BIELD 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,381 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
963
4 guesses
1,113
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
8
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
31%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

BIELD can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

445 answers
366 answers
157 answers
154 answers
112 answers
89 answers
84 answers
74 answers
61 answers
60 answers
49 answers
46 answers
40 answers
34 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1E1L1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST SAINT SONAR REATE SHART TRINE

Strategy after playing BIELD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIELD:

19% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
ROAST 6.08 bits
15.4% →
ROAST 5.68 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 5.46 bits
6.5% →
SONAR 5.26 bits
4.7% →
REATE 4.72 bits
3.7% →
SHART 5.28 bits
3.5% →
TRINE 4.68 bits
3.1% →
COAST 4.31 bits
2.6% →
DAUNT 4.55 bits
2.5% →
DEARE 4.74 bits

Research on BIELD

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIELD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,222 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with BIELD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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

One syllable Say it BEELD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BIELD sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).