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BROAD

Yes, BROAD was the Wordle answer on September 14, 2024 (Wordle #1183).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹɔːd//bɹoːd//bɹɔd/

Adjective

Wide in extent or scope.

“three feet broad”

Adjective

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

Noun

A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

Noun

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

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: September 14, 2024 (#1183).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 14, 2024 (#1183).

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

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How BROAD performs as a guess

BROAD 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,459 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___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__A_ B in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BROAD 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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BROAD 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,459 Rank among openers
Opening with BROAD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,459 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
203
6 guesses
10
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:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
33%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A C O N E
B R O A D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BROAD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

423 answers
334 answers
171 answers
136 answers
118 answers
100 answers
87 answers
70 answers
64 answers
54 answers
47 answers
46 answers
43 answers
37 answers
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30 answers
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26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
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15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
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11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1O1A1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SIENT SLATE SEINE CONTE PALET SHULE

Strategy after playing BROAD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BROAD:

18% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8% →
SIENT 6.15 bits
14.1% →
SLATE 5.60 bits
7.2% →
SEINE 5.20 bits
5.7% →
CONTE 5.04 bits
5.0% →
PALET 4.64 bits
4.2% →
SHULE 4.59 bits
3.7% →
TORSE 4.30 bits
2.9% →
SPITE 4.74 bits
2.7% →
DEIGN 4.76 bits
2.3% →
SIENT 4.56 bits

Research on BROAD

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

Optimal play

Opening with BROAD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,648 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 BROAD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, 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 BRAWD.

Rhymes with FRAUD LAUDE SAWED JAWED PAWED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, BROAD is a kind of woman.

Synonyms full wide liberal extensive blanket tolerant

Opposites little SMALL low specific

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BROAD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 34 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).