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

BUNYA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnjə/

Noun

The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.

Noun

A traditional Kanak and Ni-Vanuatu dish

Alternative forms: bunna bunna, bunya bunya, bunyah-bunyah, bunyah

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 BUNYA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUNYA 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 252 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,827 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___A B in the 1st position and A in the 5th position B__Y_ B in the 1st position and Y in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BUNYA.

First-turn measures

All four describe BUNYA 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.

4.19 Entropy (bits)
252 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BUNYA 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,827 Rank among openers
Opening with BUNYA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,827 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
799
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
22%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

BUNYA can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

552 answers
429 answers
149 answers
146 answers
128 answers
118 answers
103 answers
69 answers
57 answers
51 answers
50 answers
45 answers
45 answers
40 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1N1Y4A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRICE CRATE TOISE PROLE CORSE SLIER

Strategy after playing BUNYA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUNYA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
18% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
6% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
TRICE 6.12 bits
18.1% →
CRATE 5.66 bits
6.3% →
TOISE 5.16 bits
6.1% →
PROLE 4.88 bits
5.4% →
CORSE 5.40 bits
5.0% →
SLIER 4.66 bits
4.3% →
TARSE 4.62 bits
2.9% →
STIRE 4.82 bits
2.4% →
STONE 4.07 bits
2.1% →
TRICE 4.42 bits

Research on BUNYA

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

Optimal play

Opening with BUNYA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,741 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,277 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 BUHNYUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BUNYA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).