5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MEANE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The middle voice of a three-voice polyphonic musical composition.

Noun

Obsolete spelling of mean.

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 MEANE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEANE 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,305 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

M___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__N_ M in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COURT CAROL SOLER TORSE SLART SONIC
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MEANE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,305 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MEANE ranks #8,305 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
791
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
23
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
44%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

439
233
171
133
114
94
85
81
65
63
61
61
58
49
42
32
30
28
28
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
20
20
20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEANE:

19% chance
Suggested:
COURT
10% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
COURT 5.82 bits
9.9% →
CAROL 5.09 bits
7.3% →
SOLER 4.79 bits
5.6% →
TORSE 4.57 bits
4.8% →
SLART 4.68 bits
4.0% →
SONIC 4.65 bits
3.6% →
SOILY 4.37 bits
3.4% →
TALER 4.47 bits
2.8% →
PRIMO 4.67 bits
2.7% →
SLART 3.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1A1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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