BRICK
BRICK is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪk//ˈbɹɘk/
- Noun
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A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
“This wall is made of bricks.”
- Noun
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Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
“This house is made of brick.”
- Verb
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To build, line, or form with bricks.
“to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)”
- Verb
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To make into bricks.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BRIHK.
Rhymes with QUICK CLICK STICK TRICK THICK
In a sentence
The house is made of brick.
I live in a brick house.
Use BRICK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% 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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →BRICK in Connections
7 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1006
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BRICK appeared in KINDS OF WALLS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #976
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BRICK appeared in COMPACT MASS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #637
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BRICK appeared in BUILDING MATERIALS (green group).
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· Puzzle #625
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BRICK appeared in RECTANGULAR PRISMS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #567
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BRICK appeared in SHADES OF RED (yellow group).
How BRICK performs as a guess
BRICK 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 268 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,940 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BRICK 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 BRICK 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 BRICK in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BRICK can come back 87 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 BRICK; 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 BRICK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BRICK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BRICK:
Research on BRICK
Game-tree analysis and word research for BRICK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BRICK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,696 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,828 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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
- BRICK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 18 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 (4.1 of 5).
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).