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

BRIOS

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

No dictionary definition for BRIOS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

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Use BRIOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

How BRIOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRIOS 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,682 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BRIOS 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRIOS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,682 Rank among openers
Opening with BRIOS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,682 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
939
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
31%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

BRIOS can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

377 answers
224 answers
189 answers
188 answers
171 answers
90 answers
90 answers
88 answers
74 answers
66 answers
65 answers
57 answers
52 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1I1O1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing BRIOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRIOS:

16% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
9% chance
Suggested:
STALE
8% chance
Suggested:
RATEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
LANCE 6.14 bits
9.4% →
STALE 5.71 bits
7.9% →
RATEL 5.20 bits
7.9% →
CLADE 5.07 bits
7.2% →
LEANT 5.14 bits
3.8% →
COLEY 4.16 bits
3.8% →
CADET 4.99 bits
3.7% →
THALE 4.96 bits
3.1% →
PARTE 4.79 bits
2.8% →
SCOTE 4.44 bits

Research on BRIOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRIOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,219 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,490 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 3.68, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).