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

BOEPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of boep

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 BOEPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOEPS 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 183 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,778 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BOEPS 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
183 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOEPS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,778 Rank among openers
Opening with BOEPS left 1 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,778 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
10
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

BOEPS can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

395 answers
390 answers
182 answers
147 answers
129 answers
114 answers
88 answers
66 answers
66 answers
66 answers
57 answers
50 answers
50 answers
47 answers
45 answers
42 answers
31 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1E1P3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing BOEPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOEPS:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6%
TRAIL 5.91 bits
16.4%
RAILE 5.52 bits
7.7%
SHALT 5.28 bits
6.2%
ACORN 5.22 bits
5.4%
CLARY 4.59 bits
4.8%
REATE 4.98 bits
3.7%
TALER 4.43 bits
2.8%
PLAIT 4.99 bits
2.8%
PARLE 4.80 bits
2.8%
DRONE 4.45 bits

Research on BOEPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOEPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,047 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,218 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 BOHPS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.