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

BRIGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹɪɡz/

Noun

plural of brig

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 BRIGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRIGS 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,127 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.
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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__G_ B in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BRIGS 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRIGS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,127 Rank among openers
Opening with BRIGS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,127 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

BRIGS can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

496 answers
289 answers
275 answers
177 answers
110 answers
101 answers
77 answers
67 answers
64 answers
63 answers
59 answers
40 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
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15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1I1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

OLATE STALE TERRA TILDE COATE POTAE

Strategy after playing BRIGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRIGS:

21% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
STALE
12% chance
Suggested:
TERRA

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
OLATE 5.98 bits
12.2% →
STALE 5.70 bits
11.6% →
TERRA 5.36 bits
7.5% →
TILDE 5.05 bits
4.6% →
COATE 5.07 bits
4.3% →
POTAE 5.03 bits
3.2% →
CLONE 4.83 bits
2.8% →
ALONE 5.32 bits
2.7% →
ALONE 4.95 bits
2.7% →
RIDER 4.24 bits

Research on BRIGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRIGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,689 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,986 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 BRIHGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BRIGS is a kind of vessel or institution.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRIGS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).