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BUTTE

BUTTE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːt//ˈbʌt/

Noun

An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

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

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 BUTTE performs as a guess

BUTTE 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

Across the six-turn solver test, it ranks #10,946 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SOLAR SORAL ROAST SLART SLUNG
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener

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

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,946 Opener rank
BUTTE ranks #10,946 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the six-turn solver test: SLANT (3.51 guesses on average in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
37%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M U S I C
B U T T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BUTTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

587
360
237
168
109
99
90
60
49
42
39
33
32
31
31
24
22
22
20
19
19
15
13
13
11
11
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUTTE:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
CAROL 5.93 bits
15.3% →
SOLAR 5.16 bits
10.1% →
SORAL 4.85 bits
7.1% →
ROAST 5.40 bits
4.6% →
SLART 4.89 bits
4.2% →
SLUNG 4.80 bits
3.8% →
SADLY 4.08 bits
2.5% →
SONAR 4.82 bits
2.1% →
SNOUT 4.29 bits
1.8% →
RAINY 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1T1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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