5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

BUYER

Yes, BUYER was the Wordle answer on February 24, 2026 (Wordle #1711).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)//ˈbaɪ.ɚ/

Noun

A person who makes one or more purchases.

“Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence.”

Noun

A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.

“The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.”

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 24, 2026 (#1711).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BUYER performs as a guess

BUYER 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,866 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___R B in the 1st position and R in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

COAST SLANT SAINT PARRY SHALT SLAIN
Words starting with B Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.65 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BUYER 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,866 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BUYER ranks #7,866 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
239
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
P E N C E
B U Y E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BUYER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

390
333
197
164
154
111
109
96
54
47
44
42
41
39
37
35
35
29
25
24
22
17
16
14
14
12
12
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUYER:

17% chance
Suggested:
COAST
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
COAST 5.92 bits
14.1% →
SLANT 5.80 bits
8.4% →
COAST 5.47 bits
7.0% →
SLANT 4.83 bits
6.5% →
COAST 4.94 bits
4.7% →
SAINT 3.67 bits
4.6% →
SLANT 5.11 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
2.3% →
PARRY 4.14 bits
2.0% →
SHALT 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1Y4E1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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