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

MEDII

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of medius

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 MEDII performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEDII 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 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,222 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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 MEDII 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.

3.86 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MEDII 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,222 Rank among openers
Opening with MEDII left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,222 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
21
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:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
23%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MEDII can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

614 answers
478 answers
219 answers
150 answers
131 answers
93 answers
79 answers
79 answers
60 answers
47 answers
46 answers
35 answers
32 answers
28 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1D2I1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MEDII

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEDII:

26% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
20% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.9%
ROAST 6.05 bits
20.1%
TARSE 5.63 bits
9.2%
SLANT 5.12 bits
6.3%
SLART 4.94 bits
5.5%
RINSE 4.79 bits
3.9%
ROUND 5.03 bits
3.3%
SLANT 5.08 bits
3.3%
SAURY 4.75 bits
2.5%
ARENE 4.66 bits
2.0%
SONAR 4.40 bits

Research on MEDII

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

Optimal play

Opening with MEDII, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,049 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 MEDII can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MEHDEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MEDII sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).