5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BUNDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of bund

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bund

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 BUNDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUNDS 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,724 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__D_ B in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARTE SPATE ARIEL CLOTE CAGEY PALER
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.08 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BUNDS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#5,724 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BUNDS ranks #5,724 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
854
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
23%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

692
342
195
159
89
82
75
74
71
49
48
36
35
31
31
18
18
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17
17
16
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13
11
11
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUNDS:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
15% chance
Suggested:
SPATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
CARTE 6.28 bits
14.5% →
SPATE 5.70 bits
8.3% →
ARIEL 5.60 bits
6.7% →
ARIEL 5.74 bits
3.8% →
CLOTE 5.34 bits
3.5% →
CAGEY 4.68 bits
3.2% →
PALER 4.46 bits
3.1% →
OLATE 5.12 bits
3.0% →
TIARE 4.51 bits
2.1% →
SHART 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1N1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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