5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BUSTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bʌsts/

Noun

plural of bust

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bust

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 BUSTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUSTS 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 63.1% of games, misses completely in 36.9%, and leaves about 405 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,016 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TREAT PLANE ARISE CLONE LIANE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.67 Entropy (bits)
405 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BUSTS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,016 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BUSTS ranks #11,016 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
726
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
STU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
22%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

871
268
256
124
104
99
93
71
50
48
43
21
20
19
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15
15
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUSTS:

37% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
11% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.9% →
RAILE 6.18 bits
11.4% →
TREAT 5.47 bits
10.9% →
PLANE 5.47 bits
5.3% →
ARISE 4.82 bits
4.4% →
CLONE 5.13 bits
4.2% →
LIANE 5.30 bits
3.9% →
MARLE 4.44 bits
3.0% →
FAIRE 4.58 bits
2.1% →
RAILE 4.98 bits
2.0% →
TRONE 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1S1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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