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

BITEY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪti/[ˈbaɪ̯ɾi]

Adjective

Inclined to bite.

Adjective

Having a sharp or spicy flavor.

Noun

An animal that bites or stings.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From bite + -y (suffix forming adjectives). Compare West Frisian bitsich (“snappy”), Saterland Frisian bieterg (“snappish”), German Low German bittsig (“snappy”), German bissig (“snappy, snappish”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BITEY in a puzzle

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

Open Solver with BITEY Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BITEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BITEY 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,421 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BITEY 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BITEY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,421 Rank among openers
Opening with BITEY 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,421 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
240
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
42%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

BITEY can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

358 answers
314 answers
161 answers
153 answers
150 answers
147 answers
122 answers
86 answers
78 answers
43 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1T1E1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CAROL SORAL ROAST SOLAR CAIRN SLART

Strategy after playing BITEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BITEY:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
7% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
CAROL 6.01 bits
13.2% →
SORAL 5.38 bits
6.8% →
SORAL 4.82 bits
6.4% →
ROAST 5.39 bits
6.3% →
SOLAR 4.60 bits
6.2% →
CAIRN 5.12 bits
5.1% →
SLART 5.24 bits
3.6% →
SNARE 4.40 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 4.58 bits
1.8% →
LEARE 4.35 bits

Research on BITEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BITEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,721 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 BITEY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BITEY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).