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

BURLY

Yes, BURLY was the Wordle answer on July 21, 2023 (Wordle #762).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːli//bɝli//bʌrle/

Adjective

Large, well-built, and muscular.

“He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.”

Adjective

Great, amazing, unbelievable.

“That goal was burly.”

Alternative forms: bowerly

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: July 21, 2023 (#762).

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

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How BURLY performs as a guess

BURLY 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,661 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SAINE IRATE STOAE SATED STONE SCOTE
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.42 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BURLY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,661 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BURLY ranks #6,661 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
866
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
22
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:
LRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
35%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
D R Y L Y
B U R L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BURLY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

507
393
249
143
107
76
63
58
57
56
39
38
37
36
34
33
33
27
22
21
18
15
14
14
13
13
12
12
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BURLY:

22% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
17% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
11% chance
Suggested:
STOAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
SAINE 6.25 bits
16.7% →
IRATE 5.31 bits
10.6% →
STOAE 5.48 bits
6.1% →
SATED 4.89 bits
4.5% →
STONE 5.27 bits
3.2% →
SCOTE 4.95 bits
2.7% →
SPATE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
ARIEL 4.23 bits
2.4% →
STONE 4.57 bits
2.4% →
SIENT 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1R1L1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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