5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

BRAWN

Yes, BRAWN was the Wordle answer on December 22, 2024 (Wordle #1282).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹɔːn//bɹɔn//bɹɑn/

Noun

Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.

Noun

Physical strength; muscularity.

“The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.”

Verb

Make fat, especially of a boar.

Verb

Become fat, especially of a boar.

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: December 22, 2024 (#1282).

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

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How BRAWN performs as a guess

BRAWN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,073 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___N B in the 1st position and N in the 5th position B__W_ B in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SORER SALET SUITE STILE PARTE
Words starting with B Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BRAWN 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,073 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BRAWN ranks #5,073 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
6
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:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
A B I D E
B R A W N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BRAWN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

502
239
230
186
128
127
111
80
58
50
41
38
34
32
31
31
28
26
21
20
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRAWN:

21% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SORER
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
10.1% →
SORER 5.24 bits
9.8% →
SALET 5.41 bits
7.9% →
SUITE 5.38 bits
5.4% →
STILE 5.13 bits
5.4% →
PARTE 4.56 bits
4.7% →
SPICE 4.81 bits
3.4% →
TOILE 4.34 bits
2.5% →
STOLE 4.73 bits
2.1% →
SHIEL 4.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1A1W4N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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