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

BOOKY

BOOKY 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: /ˈbʊki//ˈbyːki/

Adjective

Treacherous, snitchy, not trustworthy.

Adjective

Strange, scary, suspicious.

Alternative forms: Buki, bookey, bookie

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 BOOKY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOOKY 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 547 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,219 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

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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__K_ B in the 1st position and K 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 BOOKY.

First-turn measures

All four describe BOOKY 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOOKY 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,219 Rank among openers
Opening with BOOKY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.92 average. It ranks #14,219 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
627
4 guesses
1,227
5 guesses
432
6 guesses
34
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
39%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

BOOKY can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1073 answers
229 answers
160 answers
136 answers
135 answers
112 answers
95 answers
52 answers
47 answers
36 answers
29 answers
26 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1O1K5Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TIARE RAISE CRUET STURE LATER SLANT

Strategy after playing BOOKY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOOKY:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.2% →
TIARE 6.20 bits
9.6% →
RAISE 4.76 bits
6.7% →
CRUET 4.98 bits
5.7% →
STURE 4.86 bits
5.7% →
LATER 5.25 bits
4.7% →
SLANT 5.14 bits
4.0% →
RAILE 5.15 bits
2.2% →
TALER 4.95 bits
2.0% →
SLADE 3.66 bits
1.5% →
PLANE 4.57 bits

Research on BOOKY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOOKY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,887 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.07 guesses at best and is rank #6,917 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92; proven optimal play reaches 3.90. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 BUUKEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BOOKY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).