5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BUTEO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.

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 BUTEO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUTEO 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,299 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___O B in the 1st position and O in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SNARL LEARE COLON RAINY SHIRT SHART
Words starting with B Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BUTEO 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,299 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BUTEO ranks #6,299 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
837
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
221
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
3 vowels
Common:
EOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

339
307
225
150
145
127
85
83
76
63
47
39
39
36
35
34
34
32
24
23
22
21
17
17
14
13
13
13
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUTEO:

14% chance
Suggested:
SNARL
13% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
10% chance
Suggested:
COLON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
SNARL 5.62 bits
13.0% →
LEARE 5.48 bits
9.5% →
COLON 5.08 bits
6.4% →
RAINY 4.43 bits
6.1% →
SHIRT 5.40 bits
5.4% →
SHART 5.04 bits
3.6% →
SNORE 4.53 bits
3.5% →
SADLY 4.10 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.56 bits
2.7% →
SLUNK 4.88 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1T1E1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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