BREED
Yes, BREED was the Wordle answer on April 8, 2024 (Wordle #1024).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiːd/[ˈbɹʷɪi̯d]
- Verb
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To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- Verb
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To give birth to; to be the native place of.
“A pond breeds fish.”
- Noun
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All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
“a breed of tulip”
- Noun
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A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
Alternative forms: breede
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Low German bröden, Dutch broeden, German brüten.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BREED.
Rhymes with SPEED FREED GREED BLEED CREED
Related meanings
Synonyms COVER STOCK strain multiply SPAWN HATCH
In a sentence
Are they the same breed?
What breed is your dog?
Use BREED in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 8, 2024 (#1024).
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See what the public sample says →How BREED performs as a guess
BREED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,145 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BREED 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How BREED 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches BREED in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BREED can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for BREED; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing BREED
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BREED.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BREED:
Research on BREED
Game-tree analysis and word research for BREED, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BREED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,239 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 BREED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BREED sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).