5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BURQA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː.kə//ˈbɝ.kə/

Noun

An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

Noun

Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:

Alternative forms: burka, burkha, burqua, boorka

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 BURQA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BURQA 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 295 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,086 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___A B in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLANE TOISE TRACE STONE SONLY
Words starting with B Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.82 Entropy (bits)
295 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BURQA 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,086 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BURQA ranks #13,086 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
694
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
358
6 guesses
25
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
2 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
23%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

572
437
295
215
123
90
69
61
55
42
38
36
36
26
21
20
18
16
14
12
11
11
10
10
9
8
8
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BURQA:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
19% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
18.5% →
SLANE 5.55 bits
12.5% →
TOISE 5.16 bits
9.1% →
TRACE 4.72 bits
5.2% →
STONE 5.18 bits
3.8% →
SONLY 4.04 bits
2.9% →
SHOTE 4.73 bits
2.6% →
CONTE 4.57 bits
2.3% →
CLONE 4.51 bits
1.8% →
MATEY 4.03 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1R1Q10A1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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