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

METHS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

methylated spirits.

Noun

plural of meth

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 METHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts METHS 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,019 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__H_ M in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe METHS 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.

4.61 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How METHS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,019 Rank among openers
Opening with METHS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,019 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
832
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
21%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

METHS can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

442 answers
365 answers
148 answers
140 answers
110 answers
110 answers
96 answers
92 answers
81 answers
64 answers
50 answers
45 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1T1H4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROANY ARIEL TALON SALON PAIRE LEARE

Strategy after playing METHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing METHS:

19% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
15% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
6% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
ROANY 5.74 bits
15.4% →
ARIEL 5.21 bits
6.2% →
TALON 5.09 bits
5.9% →
SALON 5.14 bits
4.6% →
PAIRE 4.98 bits
4.6% →
LEARE 4.58 bits
4.0% →
TRACE 4.75 bits
3.9% →
SAINT 4.49 bits
3.4% →
COALY 4.76 bits
2.7% →
PRIMO 4.62 bits

Research on METHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with METHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,702 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,041 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 MEHTHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, METHS is a kind of speed.

Synonyms ice GLASS TRASH CHALK CRANK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
METHS 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.

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).