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

BOCCI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of bocce.

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 BOCCI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOCCI 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 373 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,821 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___I B in the 1st position and I in the 5th position B__C_ B in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BOCCI 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.

3.62 Entropy (bits)
373 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOCCI 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,821 Rank among openers
Opening with BOCCI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,821 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
726
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
26%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

BOCCI can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

767 answers
419 answers
231 answers
182 answers
105 answers
81 answers
71 answers
50 answers
46 answers
43 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1C3C3I1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TARSE SALET SNORT TALER PRASE SERAL

Strategy after playing BOCCI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOCCI:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
18% chance
Suggested:
SALET
10% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3% →
TARSE 6.28 bits
17.6% →
SALET 5.41 bits
9.7% →
SNORT 5.20 bits
7.7% →
TALER 4.67 bits
4.4% →
PRASE 5.44 bits
3.4% →
SERAL 5.23 bits
3.0% →
LEANT 5.02 bits
2.1% →
PIANO 4.14 bits
1.9% →
RANSE 4.63 bits
1.8% →
CARNE 4.43 bits

Research on BOCCI

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOCCI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,802 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,242 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BAHCHEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BOCCI is a kind of bowling.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BOCCI 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).