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BOONG

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

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.

Etymology

Suggested sources are * Malay bung (“brother”), * Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”) * A New Guinea native language * An Aboriginal Australian language. Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BOONG in a puzzle

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

Open Solver with BOONG Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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 57.9% of games, misses completely in 42.1%, and leaves about 478 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.
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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 BO_NG B in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, N in the 4th position, and G in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BOONG 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
478 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,593 Rank among openers
Opening with BOONG left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It 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

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
33%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

BOONG can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1004 answers
211 answers
149 answers
130 answers
110 answers
91 answers
91 answers
84 answers
58 answers
37 answers
34 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

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.

Try next

SLATE TIARE TALER RAILE CRATE CATER

Strategy after playing BOONG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOONG:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.1% →
SLATE 6.30 bits
8.9% →
TIARE 5.25 bits
6.2% →
TALER 4.70 bits
5.5% →
RAILE 5.40 bits
4.6% →
CRATE 4.98 bits
3.8% →
CATER 5.29 bits
3.8% →
RAILE 5.22 bits
3.5% →
SAUTE 4.77 bits
2.4% →
RATEL 5.05 bits
1.6% →
MATEY 4.28 bits

Research on BOONG

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOONG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,972 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,559 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BOONG 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).