5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BOUGE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /buːd͡ʒ/

Verb

To swell out.

Verb

To bilge.

Noun

The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.

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 BOUGE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BOUGE 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,547 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__G_ B in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART STAIR ARSON CLARY SNARY SLANT
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.61 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOUGE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#7,547 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOUGE ranks #7,547 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
280
6 guesses
13
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
3 vowels
Common:
EOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
39%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

442
392
179
172
123
108
67
67
55
46
45
39
34
31
30
29
29
27
24
23
23
19
19
17
16
15
15
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOUGE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
17% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SLART 5.84 bits
16.6% →
STAIR 5.28 bits
7.6% →
SLART 5.20 bits
7.3% →
ARSON 5.17 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 4.64 bits
4.6% →
SNARY 4.50 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.91 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.72 bits
2.3% →
SLART 3.99 bits
2.0% →
MOWER 3.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1U1G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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