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

ACMIC

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

peak

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

Use ACMIC in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% 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 ACMIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ACMIC 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 325 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,056 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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 ACMIC 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.

3.73 Entropy (bits)
325 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ACMIC 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,056 Rank among openers
Opening with ACMIC left 6 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 3.81 average. It ranks #12,056 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
16%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

ACMIC can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

638 answers
449 answers
321 answers
136 answers
114 answers
91 answers
76 answers
63 answers
59 answers
54 answers
44 answers
38 answers
35 answers
31 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1C3M3I1C3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing ACMIC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ACMIC:

27% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
SOREL 6.09 bits
18.8% →
TARSE 5.61 bits
13.5% →
TRINE 5.41 bits
5.7% →
TRONE 5.32 bits
4.8% →
CRATE 4.98 bits
3.8% →
DROLE 4.99 bits
3.2% →
ROUTE 5.31 bits
2.6% →
SLYER 4.69 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.73 bits
2.3% →
TRICE 4.37 bits

Research on ACMIC

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

Optimal play

Opening with ACMIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,006 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,863 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).