5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BORAS

BORAS 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

plural of bora

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 BORAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BORAS 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,257 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LITHE LANCE TRIED STILE TRACE THALE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.00 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BORAS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,257 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BORAS ranks #3,257 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

333
245
176
169
134
129
109
86
81
59
50
44
43
41
39
38
30
29
27
26
24
22
22
20
18
18
18
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BORAS:

14% chance
Suggested:
LITHE
10% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
LITHE 5.86 bits
10.4% →
LANCE 5.33 bits
7.5% →
TRIED 5.24 bits
7.2% →
STILE 5.39 bits
5.7% →
TRACE 4.56 bits
5.5% →
THALE 4.90 bits
4.6% →
TUILE 4.32 bits
3.6% →
CLINE 5.06 bits
3.4% →
TRINE 4.20 bits
2.5% →
CLOTE 3.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1R1A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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