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

BIKIE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɑɪ.kiː/

Noun

A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker.

Alternative forms: bikey

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

Use BIKIE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% 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 BIKIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIKIE 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 319 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,450 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 BIKIE 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.

3.78 Entropy (bits)
319 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIKIE 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,450 Rank among openers
Opening with BIKIE left 1 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,450 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
671
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
371
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
38%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

BIKIE can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

665 answers
428 answers
263 answers
131 answers
101 answers
101 answers
95 answers
68 answers
68 answers
45 answers
45 answers
37 answers
34 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1K5I1E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing BIKIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIKIE:

28% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
18% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
11% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9% →
ROAST 5.95 bits
18.0% →
ALTER 5.36 bits
11.0% →
ROAST 5.19 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 5.11 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.95 bits
4.2% →
SALTY 4.38 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 5.01 bits
2.9% →
SLART 4.07 bits
2.9% →
ROANY 4.81 bits
1.9% →
TRIED 4.45 bits

Research on BIKIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIKIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,136 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 BIKIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BIKIE 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).