Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

BRAZA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Synonym of estado, a traditional Spanish unit of length equivalent to about 1.67 m.

Alternative forms: brass

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Spanish braza (“Spanish brace”), from Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“arm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use BRAZA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How BRAZA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRAZA 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 66.4% of games, misses completely in 33.6%, and leaves about 384 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,066 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BRAZA 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.

3.55 Entropy (bits)
384 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRAZA 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,066 Rank among openers
Opening with BRAZA left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.91 average. It ranks #14,066 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
611
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
405
6 guesses
29

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
30%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

BRAZA can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

800 answers
327 answers
294 answers
161 answers
144 answers
135 answers
77 answers
51 answers
46 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1A1Z10A1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing BRAZA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRAZA:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
SORER
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.6% →
TOILE 6.07 bits
13.7% →
SORER 5.21 bits
12.3% →
SALET 5.38 bits
6.8% →
STILE 5.20 bits
6.0% →
CONTE 4.74 bits
5.7% →
PARER 4.42 bits
3.2% →
TOILE 4.85 bits
2.1% →
SIENT 3.76 bits
1.9% →
SHITE 4.04 bits
1.1% →
MOILE 4.29 bits

Research on BRAZA

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRAZA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,965 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,801 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).