BRAWL
BRAWL is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /bɹɔːl//bɹoːl//bɹɔl/
- Noun
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A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
- Verb
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To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
- Verb
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To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
- Noun
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A type of dance move or step.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English braulen, brall, brallen (“to clamour, to shout; to quarrel; to boast”); further etymology is uncertain, but the word could be related to bray and ultimately imitative. It may be cognate with Danish bralle (“to chatter, jabber”), Dutch brallen (“to boast”), Low German brallen (“to brag”), Middle High German prālen (“to boast, flaunt”) (modern German prahlen (“to boast, flaunt, vaunt”)).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BRAWL.
Rhymes with SMALL STALL CRAWL SHAWL DRAWL
Related meanings
Synonyms do bash
In a sentence
It wasn't much of a brawl.
I got involved in a brawl.
Use BRAWL in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.
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
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See what the public sample says →How BRAWL performs as a guess
BRAWL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,979 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BRAWL 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 BRAWL 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 BRAWL in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BRAWL can come back 91 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 BRAWL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing BRAWL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BRAWL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BRAWL:
Research on BRAWL
Game-tree analysis and word research for BRAWL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BRAWL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,070 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 #2,160 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BRAWL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 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 sight (4.0 of 5).
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).