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

BOHOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of boho

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use BOHOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 82.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BOHOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOHOS 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 63.5% of games, misses completely in 36.5%, and leaves about 411 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,294 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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 BOHOS 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.

3.61 Entropy (bits)
411 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOHOS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,294 Rank among openers
Opening with BOHOS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,294 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
701
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
325
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
25%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

BOHOS can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

869 answers
347 answers
176 answers
147 answers
144 answers
97 answers
83 answers
61 answers
51 answers
51 answers
35 answers
35 answers
22 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1H4O1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing BOHOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOHOS:

36% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
15% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
CARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.5% →
RAILE 6.23 bits
14.6% →
TIARE 5.65 bits
7.4% →
CARTE 5.68 bits
6.2% →
CRINE 5.29 bits
6.0% →
RATEL 4.65 bits
4.1% →
RAILE 5.33 bits
3.5% →
SLATE 4.58 bits
2.6% →
MARLE 4.58 bits
2.1% →
REACT 4.32 bits
2.1% →
RATEL 5.11 bits

Research on BOHOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOHOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,388 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,902 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).