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BIOME

Yes, BIOME was the Wordle answer on September 9, 2021 (Wordle #82).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.oʊm//ˈbɑjəwm//ˈbɑjəm/

Noun

Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.

Noun

All the genomes of such a community.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 9, 2021 (#82).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BIOME performs as a guess

BIOME is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,452 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__M_ B in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BIOME 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.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BIOME 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,452 Rank among openers
Opening with BIOME solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,452 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
891
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
12
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
B I O M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BIOME in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BIOME can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

341 answers
324 answers
186 answers
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132 answers
86 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1O1M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLART ALTER SLANT CLARY SALTY VOTER

Strategy after playing BIOME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIOME:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
SLART 5.96 bits
13.6% →
ALTER 5.40 bits
7.8% →
SLANT 5.53 bits
7.4% →
SLART 5.22 bits
6.7% →
CLARY 4.91 bits
5.6% →
SLART 4.81 bits
3.6% →
SALTY 4.37 bits
3.1% →
VOTER 4.24 bits
2.6% →
TRIED 4.55 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.17 bits

Research on BIOME

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

Optimal play

Opening with BIOME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,675 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,699 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 BYOHM.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BIOME is a kind of community.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BIOME 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).