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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

IMAMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of imam

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How IMAMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts IMAMS 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 268 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,961 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

I___S I in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _M__S M in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE TALER TRINE ROUET TRUCE STILE
Words starting with I Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.86 Entropy (bits)
268 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How IMAMS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,961 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, IMAMS ranks #12,961 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
663
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
342
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
20%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

541
345
323
229
143
107
93
85
75
68
48
26
25
23
20
19
14
13
12
11
9
8
8
6
6
6
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IMAMS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
TRONE 5.91 bits
14.6% →
TALER 5.57 bits
13.7% →
TRINE 5.38 bits
9.7% →
ROUET 5.43 bits
6.1% →
TRUCE 4.99 bits
4.5% →
STILE 4.55 bits
3.9% →
THALE 4.25 bits
3.6% →
SALET 4.74 bits
3.2% →
NADIR 4.46 bits
2.9% →
HOMER 4.77 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1M3A1M3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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