5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BUTLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Alternative form of buttle.

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 BUTLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUTLE 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

Across the six-turn solver test, it ranks #3,551 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN SONAR ROAST SHART RENAL SOUND
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener

How BUTLE performs across the solver's possible answers. See the data page for the method.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#3,551 Opener rank
BUTLE ranks #3,551 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
90
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
193
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the six-turn solver test: SLANT (3.51 guesses on average in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

123 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

383
246
185
178
144
103
94
64
64
60
53
49
41
38
37
32
31
29
28
21
21
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20
18
18
17
15
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUTLE:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
10% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
CAIRN 6.03 bits
10.4% →
SONAR 5.25 bits
7.8% →
ROAST 5.47 bits
7.5% →
SONAR 4.97 bits
6.1% →
SONAR 5.18 bits
4.4% →
SHART 4.94 bits
4.0% →
RENAL 4.60 bits
2.7% →
SOUND 4.74 bits
2.7% →
MURKY 3.66 bits
2.5% →
IDYLL 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1T1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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