5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BOONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /buːnz/

Noun

plural of boon

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 BOONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOONS 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,560 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STARE AINEE CARLE LATER TIARE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOONS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,560 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOONS ranks #10,560 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
295
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:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
34%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

762
344
192
135
87
82
82
68
52
48
46
37
36
32
27
19
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOONS:

32% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
14.6% →
STARE 5.66 bits
8.1% →
AINEE 5.20 bits
5.7% →
CARLE 4.83 bits
3.7% →
LATER 5.13 bits
3.5% →
TIARE 4.96 bits
3.5% →
CARLE 5.17 bits
2.9% →
TRUCE 4.65 bits
2.2% →
TALER 5.11 bits
2.0% →
REACT 4.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1O1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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