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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

BOAST

Yes, BOAST was the Wordle answer on December 16, 2024 (Wordle #1276).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bəʊst//boʊst/

Noun

A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

Noun

Something that one brags about.

“It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.”

Verb

To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

Verb

(used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

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: December 16, 2024 (#1276).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 16, 2024 (#1276).

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

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How BOAST performs as a guess

BOAST 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #903 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___T B in the 1st position and T in the 5th position B__S_ B in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BOAST 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.

5.14 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOAST 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#903 Rank among openers
Opening with BOAST left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #903 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
982
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
14
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:
AOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
41%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A S I C
B O A S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BOAST in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BOAST can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

390 answers
229 answers
133 answers
127 answers
126 answers
112 answers
108 answers
69 answers
61 answers
57 answers
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49 answers
42 answers
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18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1A1S1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

LINER CARLE PLIER DRONE DROLE DRICE

Strategy after playing BOAST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOAST:

16% chance
Suggested:
LINER
10% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
PLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
LINER 6.00 bits
9.6% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
5.6% →
PLIER 5.34 bits
5.3% →
DRONE 5.27 bits
5.3% →
DROLE 4.47 bits
4.7% →
DRICE 4.92 bits
4.5% →
TITHE 5.22 bits
2.9% →
CATER 4.60 bits
2.6% →
ACORN 4.48 bits
2.4% →
PLIER 4.56 bits

Research on BOAST

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOAST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,082 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #661 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, 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 BOHST.

Rhymes with COAST GHOST TOAST ROAST COSTE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BOAST is a kind of act or exaggerate.

Synonyms gas feature SPORT blow brag boasting

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BOAST sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 31 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

I have nothing to boast about.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Don't boast too much about that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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).