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

BINDI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɪn.di/

Noun

The “holy dot” traditionally worn on the forehead of Hindu women.

Noun

Makeup or jewellery worn in imitation of such a dot.

Alternative forms: bindhi

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 BINDI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BINDI 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 58.4% of games, misses completely in 41.6%, and leaves about 476 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,619 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

B___I B in the 1st position and I in the 5th position B__D_ B in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _I__I I in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BINDI 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.

3.49 Entropy (bits)
476 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BINDI 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,619 Rank among openers
Opening with BINDI left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,619 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
709
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
317
6 guesses
31
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
23%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

BINDI can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

987 answers
216 answers
213 answers
128 answers
103 answers
98 answers
92 answers
71 answers
60 answers
52 answers
42 answers
36 answers
29 answers
27 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1N1D2I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TARSE SOARE DROLE ATONE SALET OLATE

Strategy after playing BINDI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BINDI:

42% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.6% →
TARSE 6.40 bits
9.1% →
SOARE 5.44 bits
9.0% →
TARSE 5.45 bits
5.4% →
DROLE 5.48 bits
4.3% →
ATONE 4.66 bits
4.1% →
SALET 4.65 bits
3.9% →
OLATE 5.25 bits
3.0% →
CARTE 4.71 bits
2.5% →
ALURE 5.11 bits
2.2% →
TALER 4.64 bits

Research on BINDI

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

Optimal play

Opening with BINDI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,207 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 BINDI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BIHNDEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BINDI sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).