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

MESIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of various birds

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 MESIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MESIA 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 90.2% of games, misses completely in 9.8%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,011 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe MESIA 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MESIA 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,011 Rank among openers
Opening with MESIA 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,011 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
25%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

MESIA can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

233 answers
232 answers
216 answers
171 answers
148 answers
126 answers
111 answers
98 answers
97 answers
94 answers
55 answers
55 answers
53 answers
45 answers
44 answers
39 answers
33 answers
29 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1S1I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing MESIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MESIA:

10% chance
Suggested:
TALON
10% chance
Suggested:
TRULY
9% chance
Suggested:
TRODE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.8%
TALON 5.22 bits
9.8%
TRULY 5.45 bits
9.1%
TRODE 5.18 bits
7.2%
CARLE 4.81 bits
6.2%
GLINT 4.95 bits
5.3%
DINER 4.88 bits
4.7%
SNORT 4.95 bits
4.1%
SHALT 4.79 bits
4.1%
DETER 4.32 bits
4.0%
SPREE 4.59 bits

Research on MESIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MESIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,919 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 MESIA 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAYSEEUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.