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BONGO

Yes, BONGO was the Wordle answer on May 14, 2025 (Wordle #1425).

As an opener, it rules out about 79.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ//ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/

Noun

A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

Noun

Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.

Verb

To play the bongo drums.

Verb

Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 14, 2025 (#1425).

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

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How BONGO performs as a guess

BONGO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 57.8% of games, misses completely in 42.2%, and leaves about 476 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,148 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__G_ B in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE RAISE CRATE CARET GLARE TALER
Words starting with B Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.60 Entropy (bits)
476 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
79.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BONGO 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,148 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BONGO ranks #11,148 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
717
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
20
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:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
27%
All gray
42%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
B O N G O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BONGO in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

994
204
174
147
103
90
83
61
58
50
30
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BONGO:

42% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.2% →
SLATE 6.30 bits
8.7% →
RAISE 5.36 bits
7.4% →
CRATE 5.31 bits
6.2% →
CARET 4.81 bits
4.4% →
GLARE 5.14 bits
3.8% →
TALER 5.19 bits
3.5% →
CADIE 4.70 bits
2.6% →
SNARE 4.37 bits
2.5% →
TALER 5.04 bits
2.1% →
SLART 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1N1G2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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