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

MERED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of mere

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 MERED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MERED 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 73.6% of games, misses completely in 26.4%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,753 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MERED 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MERED 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,753 Rank among openers
Opening with MERED left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,753 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
884
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
35%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MERED can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

626 answers
253 answers
227 answers
103 answers
97 answers
76 answers
74 answers
67 answers
64 answers
63 answers
46 answers
42 answers
37 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1R1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLANT SAINT COAST SOILY SOAPY DONUT

Strategy after playing MERED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MERED:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
10% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.4% →
SLANT 6.07 bits
10.7% →
SLANT 5.83 bits
9.6% →
SAINT 5.40 bits
4.3% →
COAST 4.89 bits
4.1% →
SOILY 3.62 bits
3.2% →
COAST 4.85 bits
3.1% →
SOAPY 4.81 bits
2.8% →
DONUT 4.59 bits
2.7% →
SHALT 4.66 bits
2.7% →
SAINT 4.47 bits

Research on MERED

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

Optimal play

Opening with MERED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,791 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 MERED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it MEHRD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MERED sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (1.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).