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

BIMBO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɪmbəʊ//ˈbɪmboʊ/

Noun

A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.

Noun

A stupid or foolish person.

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 BIMBO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BIMBO 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 64.6% of games, misses completely in 35.4%, and leaves about 432 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,535 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

B___O B in the 1st position and O in the 5th position B__B_ B in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST TRONE TRINE SATED CARLE SERAL
Words starting with B Words ending with O

First-turn measures

All four describe BIMBO 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.

3.36 Entropy (bits)
432 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIMBO 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,535 Rank among openers
Opening with BIMBO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It ranks #13,535 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
625
4 guesses
1,309
5 guesses
352
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
20%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

BIMBO can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

835 answers
420 answers
305 answers
148 answers
107 answers
87 answers
52 answers
48 answers
35 answers
35 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIMBO:

35% chance
Suggested:
REAST
18% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.4% →
REAST 6.28 bits
17.8% →
TRONE 5.23 bits
12.9% →
TRINE 5.48 bits
6.3% →
SATED 4.47 bits
4.5% →
CARLE 5.43 bits
3.7% →
SERAL 5.17 bits
2.2% →
MARLE 4.50 bits
2.0% →
POINT 4.49 bits
1.5% →
SCALE 4.42 bits
1.5% →
RONTE 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1M3B3O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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