5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MENIL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated.

Alternative forms: menel

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 MENIL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MENIL 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 85.4% of games, misses completely in 14.6%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,198 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___L M in the 1st position and L in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SHIRT GRANT SLART STARY PRIDE
Words starting with M Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MENIL 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,198 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MENIL ranks #1,198 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
989
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
EILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
29%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

344
323
146
118
111
106
102
86
68
62
57
52
39
39
37
33
33
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MENIL:

15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
14% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
6% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.6% →
ROAST 6.13 bits
13.7% →
ROAST 5.54 bits
6.2% →
ROAST 5.01 bits
5.0% →
SHIRT 5.23 bits
4.7% →
GRANT 5.11 bits
4.5% →
SLART 4.83 bits
4.3% →
STARY 4.90 bits
3.6% →
PRIDE 4.64 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.76 bits
2.6% →
CRAMP 4.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1N1I1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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