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

BRAHS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of brah

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 BRAHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRAHS 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,661 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BRAHS 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRAHS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,661 Rank among openers
Opening with BRAHS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,661 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

BRAHS can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

408 answers
253 answers
207 answers
193 answers
125 answers
117 answers
112 answers
73 answers
68 answers
68 answers
61 answers
57 answers
47 answers
47 answers
43 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1A1H4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing BRAHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRAHS:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2%
TOILE 6.12 bits
10.7%
TOILE 5.24 bits
8.7%
TOILE 5.51 bits
8.1%
ROUET 4.86 bits
5.3%
CONTE 4.76 bits
4.9%
TALER 4.60 bits
4.7%
CONTE 5.40 bits
3.1%
SUITE 4.68 bits
2.9%
SALET 4.74 bits
2.9%
CLINE 4.62 bits

Research on BRAHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRAHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,849 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,184 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BRAHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRAHS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).