5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BIJOU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /biˈʒuː/

Noun

A jewel.

Noun

A piece of jewelry; a trinket.

Adjective

Small; little.

Adjective

Small and elegant.

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 BIJOU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIJOU 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 70.3% of games, misses completely in 29.7%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,762 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___U B in the 1st position and U in the 5th position B__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__U I in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

REAST CRATE CRANE SLANE SALET TALER
Words starting with B Words ending with U

First-turn measures

3.53 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BIJOU 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,762 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BIJOU ranks #13,762 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
379
6 guesses
25
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
3 vowels
Common:
IOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
21%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

700
344
294
258
162
86
74
62
51
48
28
27
26
25
18
16
13
10
9
9
9
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8
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5
5
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4
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIJOU:

30% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
12% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.7% →
REAST 6.12 bits
14.6% →
CRATE 5.30 bits
12.5% →
CRANE 5.39 bits
10.9% →
SLANE 5.11 bits
6.9% →
SALET 4.58 bits
3.6% →
TALER 4.83 bits
3.1% →
CRUET 4.53 bits
2.6% →
SERAL 4.71 bits
2.2% →
POINT 4.37 bits
2.0% →
QUILT 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1J8O1U1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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