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

BUNJY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of bungee.

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 BUNJY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUNJY 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 57.1% of games, misses completely in 42.9%, and leaves about 512 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,016 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe BUNJY 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.

3.31 Entropy (bits)
512 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BUNJY 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#13,016 Rank among openers
Opening with BUNJY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #13,016 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
641
4 guesses
1,351
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
31%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

BUNJY can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1018 answers
269 answers
216 answers
161 answers
91 answers
86 answers
78 answers
65 answers
52 answers
43 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
17 answers
17 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1N1J8Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 21 points

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

Strategy after playing BUNJY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUNJY:

43% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.9%
TIARE 6.22 bits
11.3%
ARIEL 5.53 bits
9.1%
SLART 4.96 bits
6.8%
STOLE 5.31 bits
3.8%
OLATE 5.27 bits
3.6%
STIRE 4.90 bits
3.3%
CADIE 4.85 bits
2.7%
STONE 4.03 bits
2.2%
OATER 5.07 bits
1.8%
MARSE 3.07 bits

Research on BUNJY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BUNJY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,660 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,728 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BUHNJEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.