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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BWANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbwɑːnə/

Noun

Big boss, important person.

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 BWANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BWANA 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 63.9% of games, misses completely in 36.1%, and leaves about 398 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,664 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___A B in the 1st position and A in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position

Try next

TOILE LATER TOISE STIRE CANOE SHORE
Words starting with B Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.63 Entropy (bits)
398 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BWANA 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,664 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BWANA ranks #12,664 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
692
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
338
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
29%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

852
317
194
192
93
88
84
73
42
35
29
28
25
23
23
20
20
20
19
17
15
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10
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6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BWANA:

36% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
LATER
8% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.1% →
TOILE 5.97 bits
13.4% →
LATER 5.53 bits
8.2% →
TOISE 5.21 bits
8.1% →
STIRE 5.11 bits
3.9% →
TOISE 4.78 bits
3.7% →
CANOE 4.50 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 5.02 bits
3.1% →
SHORE 5.15 bits
1.8% →
ROUET 4.80 bits
1.5% →
ADOBE 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3W4A1N1A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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