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BROOD

Yes, BROOD was the Wordle answer on March 24, 2026 (Wordle #1739).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹuːd//bɹʉwd//bɹud/

Noun

The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

Noun

The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.

Adjective

Kept or reared for breeding.

“brood ducks”

Verb

To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

“In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.”

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: March 24, 2026 (#1739).

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

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How BROOD performs as a guess

BROOD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.9% of games, misses completely in 34.1%, and leaves about 351 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,653 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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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__O_ B in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE SALET LEANT CASTE DIANE STALE
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.03 Entropy (bits)
351 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BROOD 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,653 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BROOD ranks #8,653 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
31%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A B A C K
B R O O D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BROOD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

803
316
153
126
110
84
83
69
43
37
33
32
31
31
27
25
23
21
18
17
16
16
16
12
11
11
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BROOD:

34% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
6% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.1% →
SLANE 6.28 bits
13.4% →
SALET 5.46 bits
6.5% →
LEANT 4.98 bits
5.3% →
CASTE 5.15 bits
4.7% →
DIANE 5.14 bits
3.6% →
STALE 4.86 bits
3.5% →
CASTE 4.20 bits
2.9% →
ALINE 4.96 bits
1.8% →
ALINE 4.56 bits
1.6% →
PLANE 3.64 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1O1O1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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