5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

BOUND

BOUND is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊ̯nd//ˈbæʊ̯nd//ˈbaːnd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of bind

“I bound the splint to my leg.”

Adjective

Obliged (to).

“You are not legally bound to reply.”

Adjective

That cannot stand alone as a free word.

Noun

A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

“I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.”

Alternative forms: bownd

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

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 BOUND performs as a guess

BOUND is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,951 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SATER RAILE TALER SILER LEAST
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BOUND 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,951 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BOUND ranks #3,951 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
12
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:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
32%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B L I M P
B O U N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BOUND in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

739
176
162
137
128
105
75
67
65
59
47
40
31
31
31
30
26
26
25
24
23
20
16
14
14
13
13
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOUND:

31% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SATER
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
TARSE 6.41 bits
7.5% →
SATER 5.23 bits
6.9% →
RAILE 5.26 bits
5.8% →
TALER 4.72 bits
5.4% →
SILER 4.99 bits
4.5% →
RAILE 5.47 bits
3.2% →
LEAST 4.92 bits
2.8% →
SALET 4.97 bits
2.8% →
TALER 5.09 bits
2.5% →
ARSON 4.64 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1U1N1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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