5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MEIKO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A female given name from Japanese.

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 MEIKO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEIKO 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,377 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___O M in the 1st position and O in the 5th position M__K_ M in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SLANT TORSE LINER TRADE SNARL
Words starting with M Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MEIKO 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
#8,377 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MEIKO ranks #8,377 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
29%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

358
316
291
168
168
146
99
91
76
54
54
40
38
29
27
25
23
23
20
19
16
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEIKO:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
SLART 5.79 bits
13.4% →
SLART 5.98 bits
12.3% →
SLART 5.25 bits
7.1% →
SLANT 5.01 bits
7.1% →
SLART 4.95 bits
6.2% →
TORSE 4.62 bits
4.2% →
SLART 5.04 bits
3.9% →
LINER 4.57 bits
3.2% →
TRADE 4.20 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1I1K5O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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