5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BONES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bəʊnz//boʊnz/

Noun

plural of bone

Noun

A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bone

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 BONES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BONES 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,433 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position BO_ES B in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE SHALT TALER SLART ACTOR
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BONES 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,433 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BONES ranks #4,433 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
889
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
35%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

333
301
182
128
123
121
106
95
58
49
47
45
42
40
39
37
36
36
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BONES:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
13% chance
Suggested:
REATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
TRAIL 5.93 bits
12.8% →
REATE 5.61 bits
7.7% →
SHALT 5.30 bits
5.4% →
TALER 4.29 bits
5.2% →
SLART 5.06 bits
5.1% →
ACTOR 4.98 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.71 bits
4.0% →
GIANT 5.15 bits
2.5% →
INANE 4.45 bits
2.1% →
CADIE 3.85 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1N1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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