5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BOGUE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /boʊɡ/

Noun

A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).

Noun

A bayou or waterway.

Verb

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

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 BOGUE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOGUE 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,774 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__U_ B in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART STAIR ARSON SLANT CLARY MOWER
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOGUE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#7,774 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOGUE ranks #7,774 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
833
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
276
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
38%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

442
392
179
172
157
123
55
54
46
45
44
39
39
31
30
27
25
24
24
20
19
19
18
18
17
15
15
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOGUE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
17% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SLART 5.84 bits
16.6% →
STAIR 5.28 bits
7.6% →
SLART 5.20 bits
7.3% →
ARSON 5.17 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 4.93 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 4.64 bits
2.3% →
SLART 3.99 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.99 bits
2.0% →
MOWER 3.17 bits
1.9% →
TENOR 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1G2U1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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