5-Letter Word

BOYFS

A 5 letter word: boyfs

B1
O2
Y3
F4
S5
Letter positions
Word
boyfs
Position 1
b
Position 2
o
Position 3
y
Position 4
f
Position 5
s
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
2
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
13

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 22,02216.2%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
B18717.0%
O22,00816.1%
Y32021.6%
F42251.8%
S53,80530.5%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
B1323%
O218%
Y3431%
F4431%
S518%
Total13Higher than 91% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is BOYFS a good Wordle opening word?
BOYFS has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does BOYFS mean?
BOYFS: A 5 letter word: boyfs.
What is the Scrabble score for BOYFS?
13 points. Tile breakdown: B(3) + O(1) + Y(4) + F(4) + S(1). The highest-value tile is Y (4 points), contributing 31% of the total. This score is higher than 91% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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