Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

BWAZI

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

No dictionary definition for BWAZI is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 BWAZI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BWAZI 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 387 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,220 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BWAZI used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.37 Entropy (bits)
387 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BWAZI 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,220 Rank among openers
Opening with BWAZI left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.92 average. It ranks #14,220 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
426
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
22%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

BWAZI can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

709 answers
421 answers
406 answers
218 answers
91 answers
73 answers
72 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3W4A1Z10I1
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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

Strategy after playing BWAZI

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BWAZI.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BWAZI:

30% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
18% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
17% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9%
SOREL 5.99 bits
17.7%
TRINE 5.32 bits
17.1%
TALER 5.54 bits
9.2%
STURE 4.98 bits
3.8%
CAIRN 4.36 bits
3.1%
WORLD 4.98 bits
3.0%
STOLE 4.69 bits
1.5%
ALURE 4.38 bits
1.4%
TRINE 4.22 bits
1.3%
ROULE 4.54 bits

Research on BWAZI

Game-tree analysis and word research for BWAZI, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with BWAZI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,019 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,624 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92; proven optimal play reaches 3.91. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BWAHZEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.