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BRIDE

Yes, BRIDE was the Wordle answer on August 31, 2023 (Wordle #803).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹaɪd//bɹɑjd//bɾʌɪd/

Noun

A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

Noun

an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

Verb

to make a bride of

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 31, 2023 (#803).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How BRIDE performs as a guess

BRIDE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #862 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__D_ B in the 1st position and D 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 BRIDE.

First-turn measures

All four describe BRIDE 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRIDE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#862 Rank among openers
Opening with BRIDE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #862 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
987
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
A D O B E
B R I D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BRIDE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BRIDE can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

417 answers
201 answers
159 answers
159 answers
154 answers
147 answers
95 answers
74 answers
56 answers
49 answers
43 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1I1D2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLANT LEAST COAST SATIN SOREE SAULT

Strategy after playing BRIDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRIDE:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
SLANT 5.98 bits
8.5% →
SLANT 5.55 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.40 bits
6.7% →
LEAST 4.34 bits
6.5% →
COAST 5.27 bits
6.2% →
SATIN 5.00 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
3.1% →
COAST 4.66 bits
2.4% →
SOREE 3.99 bits
2.1% →
SAULT 4.67 bits

Research on BRIDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,552 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 BRIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 BRYD.

Rhymes with TRIED GUIDE ASIDE PRIDE SLIDE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BRIDE is a kind of woman or player.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRIDE 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 beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

And who is the bride?
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I don't know the bride.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).