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

BREVE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

Open Solver with BREVE Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹiːv//bɹɛv/

Noun

A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

Noun

A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.

Alternative forms: brieve

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 BREVE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BREVE 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 68.8% of games, misses completely in 31.2%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,437 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__V_ B in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BREVE 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BREVE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,437 Rank among openers
Opening with BREVE 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,437 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
294
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)
69%
Green tile
37%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

BREVE can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

740 answers
224 answers
186 answers
177 answers
161 answers
129 answers
67 answers
65 answers
46 answers
41 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1E1V4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLANT COAST LEANT STAIR SAINT ROAST

Strategy after playing BREVE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BREVE:

31% 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.

31.2% →
SLANT 5.90 bits
9.4% →
COAST 5.26 bits
7.8% →
SLANT 5.29 bits
7.5% →
LEANT 5.21 bits
6.8% →
STAIR 4.14 bits
5.4% →
SAINT 4.61 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.61 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 4.96 bits
1.9% →
ROAST 4.21 bits
1.7% →
COAST 3.77 bits

Research on BREVE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BREVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,163 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,755 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 BREEV. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BREVE is a kind of mark.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BREVE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).