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BRAVO

Yes, BRAVO was the Wordle answer on June 2, 2024 (Wordle #1079).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑvoʊ//bɹɑˈvoʊ//ˈbɹɑːvəʊ/

Noun

A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.

Noun

A shout of "bravo!"

Interjection

Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.

“Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!”

Verb

To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!

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: June 2, 2024 (#1079).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 2, 2024 (#1079).

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

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How BRAVO performs as a guess

BRAVO 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___O B in the 1st position and O in the 5th position B__V_ B in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _R__O R in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BRAVO 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRAVO 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,820 Rank among openers
Opening with BRAVO left 2 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 3.74 average. It ranks #8,820 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
30%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B R A V O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BRAVO in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BRAVO can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

495 answers
257 answers
245 answers
174 answers
152 answers
113 answers
108 answers
91 answers
59 answers
52 answers
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48 answers
47 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
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13 answers
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12 answers
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11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1A1V4O1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

STILE SALET STONE SIREE PARTE CONTE

Strategy after playing BRAVO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRAVO:

21% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SALET
10% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
STILE 6.09 bits
10.8% →
SALET 5.32 bits
10.3% →
STONE 4.99 bits
7.3% →
SIREE 5.15 bits
6.4% →
STILE 5.16 bits
4.8% →
PARTE 4.54 bits
4.5% →
CONTE 4.56 bits
3.8% →
SPITE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
TONAL 4.34 bits
2.2% →
SIENT 3.74 bits

Research on BRAVO

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRAVO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,199 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,857 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BRAHVOH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BRAVO is a kind of murderer or cheer.

Synonyms assassin

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRAVO sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Sami turned into a Johnny Bravo.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Sami looked like Johnny Bravo.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).