5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

BUDDY

Yes, BUDDY was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2024 (Wordle #1107).

As an opener, it rules out about 73.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌdi//ˈbʊdi/[ˈbʌɾi]

Noun

A friend or casual acquaintance.

“They have been buddies since they were in school.”

Noun

A partner for a particular activity.

“drinking buddies”

Pronoun

A person far removed from the conversation.

“I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.”

Verb

To assign a buddy, or partner, to.

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: June 30, 2024 (#1107).

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

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How BUDDY performs as a guess

BUDDY 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 50.9% of games, misses completely in 49.1%, and leaves about 624 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,113 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__D_ B in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SALET STONE ARIEL OLATE CARTE
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.13 Entropy (bits)
624 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
73.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BUDDY 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,113 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BUDDY ranks #14,113 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
615
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
412
6 guesses
33
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
51%
Green tile
30%
All gray
49%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
F L I N G
B U D D Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BUDDY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1157
215
195
139
102
92
48
43
43
38
28
23
23
20
15
15
14
14
9
9
8
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUDDY:

49% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

49.1% →
TARSE 6.26 bits
9.1% →
SALET 4.91 bits
8.3% →
STONE 5.29 bits
5.9% →
ARIEL 5.55 bits
4.3% →
OLATE 5.19 bits
3.9% →
CARTE 4.62 bits
2.0% →
LABOR 5.05 bits
1.8% →
RAILE 4.71 bits
1.8% →
SLART 3.18 bits
1.6% →
LEANT 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1D2D2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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