5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BORED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɔːd//bɔɹd//bo(ː)ɹd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of bore

Adjective

Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

“He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.”

Adjective

Perforated by a hole or holes.

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 BORED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BORED 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,006 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position BO_ED B in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLANT TRACE SHALT ARSON ANILE
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.00 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BORED 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,006 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BORED ranks #1,006 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
8
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

116 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

439
293
130
118
116
99
95
79
71
58
54
48
46
34
32
29
23
23
23
21
20
20
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19
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17
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15
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BORED:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
6% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
SAINT 6.05 bits
12.4% →
SLANT 5.86 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 5.15 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
4.9% →
TRACE 4.94 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 3.89 bits
4.0% →
SHALT 4.45 bits
3.4% →
ARSON 4.25 bits
3.0% →
SLANT 4.79 bits
2.5% →
ANILE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1R1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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