5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BREAM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹiːm//bɹɪm//bɹim/

Noun

A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

Noun

A species in that genus, Abramis brama.

Verb

To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How BREAM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BREAM 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 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,166 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___M B in the 1st position and M in the 5th position B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__M R in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT SEINE SLATE COURT
Words starting with B Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.92 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BREAM 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
0.72 Volatility
#5,166 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BREAM ranks #5,166 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
875
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
29%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

371
237
228
168
138
100
79
76
72
67
62
44
42
40
39
39
35
29
23
23
21
19
19
19
18
17
16
14
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BREAM:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
SOILY 5.70 bits
10.1% →
TOILE 5.37 bits
9.7% →
SLANT 5.45 bits
7.1% →
SEINE 4.53 bits
5.9% →
SLATE 5.06 bits
4.2% →
COURT 5.03 bits
3.4% →
TARDY 4.08 bits
3.2% →
STEEL 4.76 bits
3.1% →
PRINT 4.05 bits
2.8% →
MUSTY 4.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1E1A1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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