5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MEOUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of meou

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 MEOUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEOUS 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,115 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__U_ M in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALTER TRAIL TALON LAIRY SHALT PARTE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.76 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MEOUS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,115 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MEOUS ranks #7,115 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
19
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:
EOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
28%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

334
331
165
154
151
129
120
90
74
68
60
44
41
37
36
31
31
30
25
24
23
21
21
19
17
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14
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEOUS:

14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
7% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
ALTER 5.42 bits
14.0% →
TRAIL 5.74 bits
7.0% →
TALON 5.10 bits
6.5% →
LAIRY 4.69 bits
6.4% →
SHALT 5.30 bits
5.5% →
PARTE 4.73 bits
5.1% →
TRULY 4.64 bits
3.8% →
CLARY 4.32 bits
3.1% →
LOVER 4.34 bits
2.9% →
TRIDE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1O1U1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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