5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

BOBBY

BOBBY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 70.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɒbi//ˈbɑbi/

Noun

A police officer.

Noun

A railway signaller.

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

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 BOBBY performs as a guess

BOBBY 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 49.6% of games, misses completely in 50.4%, and leaves about 695 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,822 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.08 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__B_ B in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE SATER CRUET SLATE DROLE PARLE
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

2.60 Entropy (bits)
695 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
70.5% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOBBY 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.

4.08 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.76 Volatility
#14,822 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOBBY ranks #14,822 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
460
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
598
6 guesses
49
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
33%
All gray
50%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
B O B B Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BOBBY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

41 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1188
325
257
192
101
57
37
34
26
21
20
16
14
8
7
7
6
5
5
4
4
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOBBY:

50% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
14% chance
Suggested:
SATER
11% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

50.4% →
RAISE 6.12 bits
13.8% →
SATER 5.24 bits
10.9% →
RAISE 4.70 bits
8.1% →
CRUET 4.87 bits
4.3% →
SLATE 5.23 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 3.85 bits
1.6% →
PARLE 4.59 bits
1.4% →
LATER 4.62 bits
1.1% →
RAINE 3.75 bits
0.9% →
SNARE 3.92 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1B3B3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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