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

MEMOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of memo

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of memo

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 MEMOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEMOS 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,982 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MEMOS.

First-turn measures

All four describe MEMOS 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MEMOS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,982 Rank among openers
Opening with MEMOS 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 3.84 average. It ranks #12,982 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
673
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
338
6 guesses
25
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
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
23%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

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

462 answers
414 answers
239 answers
218 answers
166 answers
155 answers
118 answers
72 answers
64 answers
43 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1M3O1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TRAIL RAILE TONAL SAULT REATE STAIR

Strategy after playing MEMOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEMOS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
17% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
17.4% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
10.1% →
TONAL 5.03 bits
9.2% →
SAULT 5.34 bits
7.0% →
REATE 4.51 bits
6.5% →
STAIR 4.85 bits
5.0% →
RONTE 4.45 bits
3.0% →
TALER 4.63 bits
2.7% →
SHORT 4.39 bits
1.8% →
SPORE 3.70 bits

Research on MEMOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MEMOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,084 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,006 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84; proven optimal play reaches 3.83. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 MEHMOHZ.

Rhymes with DEMOS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MEMOS is a kind of note.

Synonyms memorandum

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MEMOS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).