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BRAVE

Yes, BRAVE was the Wordle answer on November 20, 2022 (Wordle #519).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹeɪv//bɹæɪv//bɾev/

Adjective

Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

Adjective

Making a fine show or display.

Verb

To encounter or withstand with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.

“After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.”

Noun

A Native American warrior.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 20, 2022 (#519).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 20, 2022 (#519).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BRAVE performs as a guess

BRAVE 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,163 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__V_ B in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in BRAVE.

First-turn measures

All four describe BRAVE 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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRAVE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,163 Rank among openers
Opening with BRAVE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,163 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
800
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
267
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
39%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
B A D G E
B R A K E
B R A V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BRAVE in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

BRAVE can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

433 answers
206 answers
186 answers
142 answers
136 answers
114 answers
101 answers
80 answers
79 answers
73 answers
53 answers
46 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1A1V4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SOILY NATAL INLET SEINE SEITY COURT

Strategy after playing BRAVE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRAVE:

18% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
NATAL
8% chance
Suggested:
INLET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
8.7% →
NATAL 5.10 bits
7.8% →
INLET 5.14 bits
6.0% →
SEINE 4.57 bits
5.7% →
SEITY 3.94 bits
4.8% →
COURT 5.03 bits
4.3% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
3.4% →
CARRY 4.32 bits
3.3% →
PRINT 4.08 bits
3.1% →
CLEAT 4.60 bits

Research on BRAVE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRAVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,154 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 BRAVE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 BRAYV.

Rhymes with GRAVE SLAVE SHAVE CRAVE WAIVE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BRAVE is a kind of warrior or people.

Synonyms gay weather HARDY endure courageous fearless

Opposites cowardly TIMID colorless

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRAVE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 21 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 44 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

That was brave of you.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You have to be brave.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).