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

MEEJA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

media (communications industry)

“That's the life of the busy meeja type, I suppose.”

Alternative forms: meedja

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Lax pronunciation of media.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use MEEJA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MEEJA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEEJA 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 324 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,232 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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 MEEJA 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.

3.69 Entropy (bits)
324 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MEEJA 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,232 Rank among openers
Opening with MEEJA left 2 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 3.92 average. It ranks #14,232 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,303
5 guesses
402
6 guesses
30

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
24%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MEEJA can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

617 answers
440 answers
352 answers
203 answers
77 answers
66 answers
57 answers
57 answers
56 answers
55 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
36 answers
28 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1E1J8A1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing MEEJA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEEJA:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
18% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.9% →
SOILY 5.62 bits
18.5% →
TRAIL 5.21 bits
14.8% →
NOIRE 5.18 bits
8.5% →
SLART 4.75 bits
3.2% →
BERTH 4.08 bits
2.8% →
SOULY 4.52 bits
2.4% →
STEER 3.82 bits
2.4% →
CLARY 4.37 bits
2.3% →
SILER 4.09 bits
2.3% →
SLART 4.42 bits

Research on MEEJA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MEEJA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,165 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 MEEJA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).