Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

BUNDT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bʌnt/

Noun

A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From German Bundkuchen, from Bund (“tied together”) + Kuchen (“cake”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BUNDT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BUNDT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUNDT 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 71.0% of games, misses completely in 29.0%, and leaves about 275 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,644 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BUNDT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
275 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BUNDT 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,644 Rank among openers
Opening with BUNDT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,644 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
924
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
31%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

BUNDT can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

692 answers
248 answers
200 answers
139 answers
123 answers
92 answers
84 answers
78 answers
68 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1N1D2T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing BUNDT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BUNDT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUNDT:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.0% →
CARLE 6.27 bits
10.4% →
TARTE 5.72 bits
8.4% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
5.8% →
ARIEL 5.69 bits
5.2% →
SERAL 5.26 bits
3.9% →
CLOSE 5.21 bits
3.5% →
SLYER 4.51 bits
3.3% →
CARLE 4.69 bits
2.9% →
RAILE 5.08 bits
1.7% →
SABER 4.85 bits

Research on BUNDT

Game-tree analysis and word research for BUNDT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with BUNDT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,702 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with BUNDT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BUNDT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).