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BOARD

Yes, BOARD was the Wordle answer on June 9, 2025 (Wordle #1451).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɔːd//boːd//bɔɹd/

Noun

A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.

Noun

A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

Verb

To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

“It is time to board the aircraft.”

Verb

To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.

“to board one’s horse at a livery stable”

Alternative forms: boord, bord

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: June 9, 2025 (#1451).

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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 BOARD performs as a guess

BOARD 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,623 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__R_ B in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BOARD 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOARD 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,623 Rank among openers
Opening with BOARD 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,623 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,133
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
37%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B O A R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BOARD in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BOARD can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

423 answers
239 answers
204 answers
149 answers
125 answers
111 answers
107 answers
66 answers
64 answers
58 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
37 answers
36 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1A1R1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SIENT SALET SEINE STILE TUILE PALET

Strategy after playing BOARD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOARD:

18% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET
9% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8% →
SIENT 6.15 bits
10.1% →
SALET 5.37 bits
8.6% →
SEINE 5.19 bits
6.3% →
STILE 5.17 bits
5.3% →
STILE 5.01 bits
4.7% →
TUILE 4.56 bits
4.5% →
PALET 4.64 bits
2.8% →
TRICE 4.06 bits
2.7% →
DEIGN 4.76 bits
2.4% →
SCOTE 3.71 bits

Research on BOARD

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOARD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,329 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 BOARD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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

One syllable Say it BAWRD.

Rhymes with AWARD SWORD BORED CHORD HOARD

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BOARD is a kind of committee or timber.

Synonyms room TABLE card PANEL PLANK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BOARD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 174 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 73 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

Are you on board with this?
© tatoeba.org contributor Ahha (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Go up to the board.
© tatoeba.org contributor NativesAlliance (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).