BERRY
BERRY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/
- Noun
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A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- Noun
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A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- Verb
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To pick berries.
“On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.”
- Verb
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To bear or produce berries.
Alternative forms: berye, berie
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ġebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjaną (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BEHREE.
Rhymes with HARRY MARRY SCARY JERRY TERRY
In a sentence
This berry is good to eat.
Raspberries are my favourite berry.
Use BERRY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →BERRY in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #891
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BERRY appeared in BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #282
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BERRY appeared in FAMOUS GUITARISTS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #98
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BERRY appeared in BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS (blue group).
How BERRY performs as a guess
BERRY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,453 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BERRY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How BERRY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches BERRY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BERRY can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BERRY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing BERRY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BERRY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BERRY:
Research on BERRY
Game-tree analysis and word research for BERRY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BERRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,082 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with BERRY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, because the two figures score different answer lists.
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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BERRY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 89 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).