5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

BRENS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bren

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 BRENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRENS 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,342 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COALY OLATE SHALT PATEE CAROL TONIC
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.95 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BRENS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,342 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BRENS ranks #3,342 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
915
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
9
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

336
221
182
176
145
106
101
90
79
68
56
55
47
41
39
35
32
32
31
29
25
22
22
21
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRENS:

14% chance
Suggested:
COALY
9% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
COALY 5.68 bits
9.4% →
OLATE 5.23 bits
7.7% →
SHALT 5.35 bits
7.5% →
PATEE 4.55 bits
6.1% →
CAROL 5.18 bits
4.5% →
TONIC 5.04 bits
4.3% →
PLATE 5.02 bits
3.8% →
AINEE 4.47 bits
3.4% →
COALY 4.21 bits
2.9% →
GAUNT 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1E1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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