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BROWN

Yes, BROWN was the Wordle answer on November 25, 2024 (Wordle #1255).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊ̯n//ˈbɹæʊ̯n//ˈbɹaːn/

Noun

A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

“The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.”

Noun

One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

Adjective

Having a brown color/colour.

Adjective

Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Alternative forms: broon

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: November 25, 2024 (#1255).

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

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How BROWN performs as a guess

BROWN 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 250 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,097 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

B___N B in the 1st position and N in the 5th position B__W_ B in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SALET LIANE CADET TARRE STALE
Words starting with B Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
250 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BROWN 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,097 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BROWN ranks #5,097 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
894
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
7
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
28%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BROWN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

614
287
225
154
128
97
92
65
59
51
39
37
34
33
25
23
23
21
21
17
17
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15
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12
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BROWN:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
10% chance
Suggested:
LIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
SLATE 6.44 bits
12.2% →
SALET 5.44 bits
9.5% →
LIANE 5.24 bits
6.5% →
SALET 4.98 bits
5.4% →
CADET 5.12 bits
4.1% →
TARRE 4.62 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 4.83 bits
2.8% →
STALE 5.04 bits
2.5% →
THALE 5.19 bits
2.2% →
COATE 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1O1W4N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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