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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

BORAX

Yes, BORAX was the Wordle answer on April 12, 2023 (Wordle #662).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɔː.ɹæks//ˈbɔɹ.æks/

Noun

A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.

Noun

The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization.

Verb

To treat with borax.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 12, 2023 (#662).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BORAX performs as a guess

BORAX is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,574 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__X O in the 2nd position and X in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE TRIED TRACE TUILE TRINE
Words starting with B Words ending with X

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BORAX 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#11,574 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BORAX ranks #11,574 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
25

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A L M Y
B O R A X

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BORAX in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

497
372
221
164
145
139
103
68
64
50
47
43
32
29
29
26
25
22
17
17
17
14
13
13
12
11
11
11
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BORAX:

21% chance
Suggested:
STILE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
STILE 6.07 bits
15.8% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
9.4% →
TRIED 5.23 bits
7.0% →
TRACE 4.62 bits
6.1% →
STILE 5.05 bits
5.9% →
TUILE 4.45 bits
4.4% →
TRINE 4.43 bits
2.9% →
STEAL 4.52 bits
2.7% →
SUCRE 4.64 bits
2.1% →
CLINE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1R1A1X8
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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