MEDIA
Yes, MEDIA was the Wordle answer on May 10, 2024 (Wordle #1056).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.di.ə//ˈmɛ.di.ə//ˈmi.di.ə/
- Noun
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The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- Noun
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One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
- Adjective
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Clipping of multimedia.
“I have media files stored on an external hard drive.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Mēdia, from Ancient Greek Μηδία (Mēdía), from Μῆδος (Mêdos), from *Mada (vocalization uncertain), the Old Median language self-designator signifying speakers of the Median language. Compare Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎭 (Māda). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) i.e. central kingdom, cognate with Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MEEDEEUH.
Related meanings
Synonyms average sensitive intermediate moderate cooked
Opposites raw
In a sentence
Are you on social media?
I didn't talk to the media.
Use MEDIA in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 10, 2024 (#1056).
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3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1082
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MEDIA appeared in FOURTH ESTATE (green group).
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· Puzzle #921
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MEDIA appeared in SOCIAL ___ (purple group).
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· Puzzle #251
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MEDIA appeared in ___ CIRCUS (purple group).
How MEDIA performs as a guess
MEDIA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.6% of games, misses completely in 12.4%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,954 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe MEDIA 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How MEDIA 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches MEDIA in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
MEDIA can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for MEDIA; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing MEDIA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MEDIA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing MEDIA:
Research on MEDIA
Game-tree analysis and word research for MEDIA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with MEDIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,026 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MEDIA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- MEDIA sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 200 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.