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

MEAKE

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

No dictionary definition for MEAKE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MEAKE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEAKE 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 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,675 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MEAKE 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MEAKE 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,675 Rank among openers
Opening with MEAKE left 4 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,675 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
679
4 guesses
1,333
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
23
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
39%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

MEAKE can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

544 answers
306 answers
216 answers
170 answers
124 answers
90 answers
75 answers
65 answers
64 answers
63 answers
59 answers
47 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1A1K5E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing MEAKE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEAKE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
13% chance
Suggested:
TALON
9% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9%
SNORT 5.79 bits
12.9%
TALON 5.24 bits
9.1%
SILER 4.98 bits
7.2%
NOIRE 4.42 bits
5.2%
SLART 4.68 bits
3.8%
ALTER 4.67 bits
3.2%
BERTH 4.11 bits
2.7%
SAULT 4.30 bits
2.7%
CLINK 4.41 bits
2.7%
PRIMO 4.62 bits

Research on MEAKE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MEAKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,244 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,477 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80; proven optimal play reaches 3.79. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it MEEK. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.