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

BURNT

Yes, BURNT was the Wordle answer on July 22, 2025 (Wordle #1494).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɜːnt//bɝnt//bɔːnt/

Verb

simple past and past participle of burn

“I burnt the toast.”

Adjective

Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

Adjective

Carbonised.

“The toast was too burnt to eat.”

Noun

Char.

Alternative forms: burned, brent

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 22, 2025 (#1494).

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

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How BURNT performs as a guess

BURNT 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,142 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___T B in the 1st position and T in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

ALOSE SAICE LAIDE TASTE SACRE TIARE
Words starting with B Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.76 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BURNT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,142 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BURNT ranks #1,142 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
973
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
151
6 guesses
13
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:
NRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
35%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
B U R N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BURNT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

471
308
178
176
92
78
76
70
67
60
60
50
41
34
29
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BURNT:

20% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
ALOSE 6.10 bits
13.1% →
SAICE 5.36 bits
7.5% →
LAIDE 5.31 bits
7.5% →
TASTE 5.44 bits
3.9% →
ALOSE 5.04 bits
3.3% →
SACRE 4.70 bits
3.2% →
TIARE 4.75 bits
3.0% →
CLOSE 5.13 bits
2.8% →
SADLY 4.40 bits
2.5% →
ALOSE 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1R1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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