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

BOOFY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 77.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbʊfi/

Adjective

Of hair, puffy, or having extra volume, not necessarily desired; having such hair; see bouffant.

“My hair was so boofy this morning it took 10 minutes of brushing to get it looking decent.”

Adjective

Brawny, overtly masculine and rather dim-witted.

“Dave, the big boofy builder, finally solved the mouse problem the big boofy bloke way: by crushing it unceremoniously under his boot.”

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 BOOFY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOOFY 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 54.8% of games, misses completely in 45.2%, and leaves about 545 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,865 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__F_ B in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BOOFY.

First-turn measures

All four describe BOOFY 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.

3.32 Entropy (bits)
545 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOOFY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,865 Rank among openers
Opening with BOOFY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,865 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
657
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
407
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
40%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

BOOFY can come back 57 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1072 answers
232 answers
156 answers
139 answers
131 answers
102 answers
100 answers
51 answers
41 answers
36 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1O1F4Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

RAISE SLART CRUET CRATE CANER SLANE

Strategy after playing BOOFY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOOFY:

45% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
CRUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.2% →
RAISE 6.14 bits
9.8% →
SLART 4.83 bits
6.6% →
CRUET 4.87 bits
5.9% →
CRATE 4.90 bits
5.5% →
CANER 5.29 bits
4.3% →
SLANE 5.18 bits
4.2% →
ARIEL 5.40 bits
2.1% →
ALURE 4.93 bits
1.7% →
SLADE 3.62 bits
1.5% →
LEANT 4.46 bits

Research on BOOFY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOOFY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,827 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,865 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BOOFEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.