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BREAD

Yes, BREAD was the Wordle answer on March 30, 2023 (Wordle #649).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /brɛd//brɛːd//bɹɛd/

Noun

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Noun

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Verb

To coat with breadcrumbs.

“breaded fish”

Verb

To form in meshes; net.

Alternative forms: breade, breathe, brede

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: March 30, 2023 (#649).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 30, 2023 (#649).

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

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How BREAD performs as a guess

BREAD 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 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,328 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BREAD 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BREAD 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#3,328 Rank among openers
Opening with BREAD left 2 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,328 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
928
4 guesses
1,098
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
17
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)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
W R A C K
B R E A D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BREAD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BREAD can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

373 answers
243 answers
220 answers
163 answers
146 answers
103 answers
74 answers
66 answers
66 answers
64 answers
52 answers
47 answers
43 answers
36 answers
35 answers
30 answers
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26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1E1A1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOILY SLANT TOILE SOREE STALE COURT

Strategy after playing BREAD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BREAD:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
SOILY 5.71 bits
10.2% →
SLANT 5.38 bits
9.3% →
TOILE 5.41 bits
6.9% →
SOREE 4.54 bits
6.1% →
STALE 4.98 bits
4.3% →
COURT 5.04 bits
3.1% →
COAST 4.16 bits
2.8% →
SLEET 4.96 bits
2.8% →
TARGE 3.66 bits
2.7% →
PRINT 4.06 bits

Research on BREAD

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

Optimal play

Opening with BREAD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,508 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 BREAD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 BREHD.

Rhymes with AHEAD DREAD TREAD SHRED STEAD

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BREAD is a kind of food or money.

Synonyms SUGAR scratch DOUGH lettuce cabbage loot

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BREAD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 97 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

They are out of bread.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ergulis (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you want the bread?
© tatoeba.org contributor Vortarulo (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).