5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BORAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

aluminium borotartrate, an astringent and antiseptic.

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 BORAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BORAL 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,201 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___L B in the 1st position and L in the 5th position B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SIENT STANE TRIED SUITE TRACE SPALE
Words starting with B Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.09 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BORAL 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,201 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BORAL ranks #2,201 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,105
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
33%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

120 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

337
242
189
141
141
115
106
102
95
57
39
36
33
32
30
29
26
26
25
24
24
23
23
22
21
16
16
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BORAL:

14% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
10% chance
Suggested:
STANE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SIENT 6.19 bits
10.3% →
STANE 5.36 bits
8.0% →
TRIED 5.29 bits
6.0% →
SUITE 5.18 bits
6.0% →
TRACE 4.72 bits
4.9% →
SPALE 4.74 bits
4.5% →
SIENT 5.12 bits
4.3% →
STONE 4.27 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
SHUTE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1R1A1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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