BRINK
Yes, BRINK was the Wordle answer on June 23, 2022 (Wordle #369).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪŋk/[ˈbɹʷɪŋk]/ˈbɹiŋk/
- Noun
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The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
“the brink of a river”
- Noun
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The edge or border.
“the brink of success”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English brinke, brenke, from Old Norse *brenka, brekka, from Proto-Germanic *brinkǭ, *brinkaz (“hill, edge (of land)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”). Cognate with Dutch brink (“grassland”), regional German Brink, Icelandic brekka (“slope”); also Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it BRIHNGK.
Rhymes with THINK DRINK BLINK STINK TWINK
Related meanings
Synonyms threshold VERGE
In a sentence
It's back from the brink.
He's living on the brink.
Use BRINK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% 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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 23, 2022 (#369).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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BRINK appeared in PRECIPICE (yellow group).
How BRINK performs as a guess
BRINK 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 244 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,840 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe BRINK 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 BRINK 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 BRINK in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BRINK can come back 91 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 BRINK; 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 BRINK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BRINK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing BRINK:
Research on BRINK
Game-tree analysis and word research for BRINK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BRINK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,725 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 #2,864 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, 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
- BRINK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 31 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).