5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MERSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mɜːs//mɝs/

Noun

Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.

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 MERSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MERSE 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 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,674 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___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__S_ M in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TONAL TRAIN SAINT TOILE ANILE ALIEN
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MERSE 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,674 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MERSE ranks #6,674 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
39%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

485
222
186
131
130
126
72
66
61
61
57
57
43
39
37
34
24
23
22
20
19
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17
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17
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MERSE:

21% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6% →
TONAL 5.87 bits
9.4% →
TRAIN 5.31 bits
7.9% →
SAINT 5.16 bits
5.6% →
TOILE 3.58 bits
5.5% →
ANILE 4.65 bits
5.3% →
ALIEN 5.29 bits
3.1% →
DEALT 4.46 bits
2.8% →
PRATE 3.54 bits
2.6% →
COALY 4.52 bits
2.6% →
LOAMY 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1R1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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