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BRINY

Yes, BRINY was the Wordle answer on May 18, 2024 (Wordle #1064).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪni/

Adjective

Of, relating to, resembling, or containing brine (“water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt”), such as seawater or tears; salty.

“on the briny deep”

Adjective

Of a person: difficult to get along with or to like; acerbic, prickly, unlikable.

Noun

The ocean, the sea.

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: May 18, 2024 (#1064).

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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 BRINY performs as a guess

BRINY 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 79.0% of games, misses completely in 21.0%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,677 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__N_ B in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__Y R in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BRINY 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRINY 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,677 Rank among openers
Opening with BRINY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,677 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
963
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
15
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:
INR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
42%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
G U M B O
B R I N Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BRINY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BRINY can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

499 answers
289 answers
155 answers
136 answers
136 answers
122 answers
96 answers
70 answers
69 answers
66 answers
55 answers
53 answers
44 answers
42 answers
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27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
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18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1I1N1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLATE POTAE SALEP SALET CADET STALE

Strategy after playing BRINY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRINY:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
POTAE
7% chance
Suggested:
SALEP

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.0% →
SLATE 6.56 bits
12.2% →
POTAE 5.35 bits
6.5% →
SALEP 4.97 bits
5.7% →
SALET 5.16 bits
5.7% →
SALET 5.15 bits
5.1% →
CADET 5.11 bits
4.0% →
STALE 5.12 bits
2.9% →
LEAST 4.84 bits
2.9% →
CADET 4.33 bits
2.8% →
SALET 4.42 bits

Research on BRINY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRINY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,165 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 #2,798 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it BRYNEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BRINY is a kind of water.

Synonyms main SALTY

Opposites FRESH

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRINY 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).