5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

BIRTH

Yes, BIRTH was the Wordle answer on March 12, 2023 (Wordle #631).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɜːθ//bɜːð//bɜɹθ/

Noun

The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.

Noun

An instance of childbirth.

“Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.”

Adjective

A familial relationship established by childbirth.

“Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.”

Verb

To bear or give birth to (a child).

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: March 12, 2023 (#631).

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

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How BIRTH performs as a guess

BIRTH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,926 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___H B in the 1st position and H in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE CANOE SALET TREAT SCALE CAUSE
Words starting with B Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BIRTH 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,926 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BIRTH ranks #1,926 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
965
4 guesses
1,157
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B E I G Y
B I R T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BIRTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

488
293
174
167
99
88
82
78
71
70
62
53
44
38
32
27
26
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26
23
19
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BIRTH:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
7% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SLANE 6.21 bits
12.4% →
CANOE 5.21 bits
7.4% →
SALET 5.61 bits
7.1% →
SLANE 5.61 bits
4.2% →
TREAT 4.65 bits
3.7% →
SCALE 5.31 bits
3.5% →
CAUSE 4.88 bits
3.3% →
SONLY 4.41 bits
3.0% →
PRIED 4.56 bits
3.0% →
ANISE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1R1T1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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