5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

BRUTE

Yes, BRUTE was the Wordle answer on August 22, 2024 (Wordle #1160).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɹuːt//bɹut//bɹʉːt/

Adjective

Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

“a brute beast”

Adjective

Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).

Noun

A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.

“One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."”

Noun

A kind of powerful spotlight.

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: August 22, 2024 (#1160).

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

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How BRUTE performs as a guess

BRUTE 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,961 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___E B in the 1st position and E in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SALON LADEN SLANE SOLAR HOIST HARRY
Words starting with B Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BRUTE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,961 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BRUTE ranks #2,961 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
92
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
ERTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
40%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T R I T E
B R U T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BRUTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

376
176
157
153
146
132
89
86
79
53
48
46
44
40
36
34
32
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27
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BRUTE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SALON
7% chance
Suggested:
LADEN
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
SALON 5.86 bits
7.5% →
LADEN 5.25 bits
6.7% →
SLANE 4.71 bits
6.5% →
SOLAR 4.28 bits
6.2% →
HOIST 5.21 bits
5.6% →
HARRY 4.92 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.90 bits
3.6% →
LUMPY 4.32 bits
3.4% →
CANOE 3.91 bits
2.2% →
SLUNK 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3R1U1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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