5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BOLDO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊldəʊ//ˈbɒldəʊ//ˈboʊl(ˌ)doʊ/

Noun

Peumus boldus, a monimiaceous tree.

Noun

The leaves of this tree, used in traditional medicine (for example, prepared as a tea) for hepatic troubles and genitourinary inflammation.

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 BOLDO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOLDO 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 63.1% of games, misses completely in 36.9%, and leaves about 402 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,980 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___O B in the 1st position and O in the 5th position B__D_ B in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE RAISE SANER DINER CRUET CRANE
Words starting with B Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
402 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOLDO 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,980 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOLDO ranks #10,980 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
26%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

869
319
181
145
130
61
57
45
40
39
38
36
32
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24
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOLDO:

37% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
14% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SANER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.9% →
TARSE 6.40 bits
13.5% →
RAISE 5.33 bits
7.7% →
SANER 5.33 bits
6.1% →
DINER 5.51 bits
5.5% →
CRUET 4.96 bits
2.6% →
CRANE 5.02 bits
2.4% →
SAUTE 4.70 bits
1.9% →
SLATE 4.15 bits
1.7% →
CARET 4.77 bits
1.7% →
SNARE 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1L1D2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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