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

BRUME

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹuːm//bɹɪu̯m/

Noun

Mist, fog, vapour.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use BRUME in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% 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 BRUME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BRUME 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,062 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe BRUME 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BRUME 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,062 Rank among openers
Opening with BRUME 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,062 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
38%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

BRUME can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

480 answers
248 answers
184 answers
177 answers
162 answers
98 answers
98 answers
74 answers
65 answers
50 answers
45 answers
41 answers
39 answers
39 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1U1M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing BRUME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRUME:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
SAINT 6.01 bits
10.4% →
SLANT 5.46 bits
7.7% →
STAIR 4.29 bits
7.4% →
SLANT 5.34 bits
6.8% →
HAIRY 4.93 bits
4.1% →
SONLY 4.63 bits
4.1% →
SAINT 4.61 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.54 bits
2.7% →
MANIC 4.64 bits
2.1% →
COAST 4.15 bits

Research on BRUME

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

Optimal play

Opening with BRUME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,618 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,149 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BRUME sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).