5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BITCH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɪt͡ʃ//bɪʃ/

Noun

A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

“My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!”

Noun

A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.

“Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.”

Verb

To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.

Verb

To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.

“All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!”

Alternative forms: betch, biatch, biotch, beatch

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 BITCH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BITCH 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 71.1% of games, misses completely in 28.9%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,660 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__C_ B in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SOARE SLANE CARLE SOLED SNARE ALONE
Words starting with B Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BITCH 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,660 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BITCH ranks #4,660 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
13
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:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
27%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

681
247
200
143
103
94
90
87
56
44
39
35
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31
28
27
27
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BITCH:

29% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.9% →
SOARE 6.04 bits
10.5% →
SOARE 5.75 bits
8.5% →
SLANE 5.52 bits
6.1% →
CARLE 5.72 bits
4.4% →
SOLED 4.58 bits
4.0% →
SNARE 5.39 bits
3.8% →
ALONE 5.08 bits
3.7% →
SNARE 4.83 bits
2.4% →
LEARY 4.59 bits
1.9% →
ALURE 4.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1T1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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