BRAND
Yes, BRAND was the Wordle answer on July 11, 2025 (Wordle #1483).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹænd/[ˈbɹʷænd] ~ [bɹʷand]/ˈbɹand/
- Noun
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A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.
- Noun
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A branding iron.
- Verb
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To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
“When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.”
- Verb
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To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
“Her face is branded upon my memory.”
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 11, 2025 (#1483).
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See what the public sample says →How BRAND performs as a guess
BRAND is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #964 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BRAND 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 BRAND 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 BRAND in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BRAND can come back 111 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 BRAND; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing BRAND
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BRAND.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BRAND:
Research on BRAND
Game-tree analysis and word research for BRAND, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BRAND, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #1,017 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 BRAND can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, BRAND is a kind of name or kind.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BRAND sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 68 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 47 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).
In a sentence
It's a brand new day.
This car is brand-new.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).