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

BREDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Ornamental embroidery.

Noun

A braid.

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 BREDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BREDE 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 72.2% of games, misses completely in 27.8%, and leaves about 252 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,141 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 BREDE 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
252 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BREDE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,141 Rank among openers
Opening with BREDE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,141 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
855
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
38%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

BREDE can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

659 answers
203 answers
186 answers
155 answers
154 answers
105 answers
94 answers
57 answers
51 answers
44 answers
44 answers
38 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1E1D2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing BREDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BREDE:

28% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.8%
SLANT 6.00 bits
8.6%
COAST 5.36 bits
7.8%
SLANT 5.41 bits
6.5%
STAIR 4.18 bits
6.5%
LEANT 5.24 bits
4.4%
COAST 4.69 bits
4.0%
ALOUD 4.89 bits
2.4%
SLANT 4.64 bits
2.1%
SHALT 5.00 bits
1.9%
DEITY 4.04 bits

Research on BREDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BREDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,306 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 BREDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 BREED.

Rhymes with SPEED BREED FREED GREED BLEED

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BREDE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).