5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BRANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹænz/

Noun

plural of bran

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bran

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 BRANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRANS 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,928 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

B___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET STILE TARRE CLOTE LANCE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BRANS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,928 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BRANS ranks #1,928 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
988
4 guesses
1,117
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

347
195
194
185
132
112
100
72
72
69
66
59
51
49
37
36
32
31
31
25
25
22
20
20
19
16
16
16
15
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRANS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
8.3% →
ROUET 5.03 bits
8.2% →
STILE 5.51 bits
7.8% →
TOILE 5.18 bits
5.6% →
TOILE 5.14 bits
4.7% →
TARRE 4.53 bits
4.2% →
CLOTE 4.80 bits
3.1% →
LANCE 4.51 bits
3.1% →
PORTE 4.72 bits
2.9% →
THALE 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1A1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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