5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BOONG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bʊŋ/

Noun

An Australian Aboriginal person.

Noun

A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.

Alternative forms: bung, bong

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 BOONG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOONG 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 57.8% of games, misses completely in 42.2%, and leaves about 473 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,593 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___G B in the 1st position and G in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__G O in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE TIARE CARET RAILE CRATE CATER
Words starting with B Words ending with G

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
473 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOONG 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,593 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOONG ranks #10,593 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
19
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
33%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

994
205
147
129
109
91
90
82
58
36
34
28
27
24
23
20
16
15
14
13
13
13
11
9
9
9
9
8
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOONG:

42% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
6% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.2% →
SLATE 6.30 bits
8.7% →
TIARE 5.25 bits
6.2% →
CARET 4.81 bits
5.5% →
RAILE 5.41 bits
4.6% →
CRATE 4.99 bits
3.9% →
CATER 5.29 bits
3.8% →
TALER 5.19 bits
3.5% →
SAUTE 4.76 bits
2.5% →
TALER 5.04 bits
1.5% →
MATEY 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1O1N1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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