5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

METIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /meɪˈtiː//meɪˈtiːs//ˈmiːtɪs/

Noun

A person of mixed-race ancestry.

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Metis (“a member of one of three Canadian Aboriginal peoples; any person of mixed European and Indigenous descent”).

Adjective

Of mixed heritage

Adjective

Of Métis heritage.

Alternative forms: métis

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 METIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts METIS 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,232 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CRONY DROLE SNARL CLARY TROUT PHARE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How METIS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,232 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, METIS ranks #3,232 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
174
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
25%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

337
286
137
124
115
113
107
104
82
78
61
57
54
50
40
38
33
33
33
29
28
25
24
23
18
16
16
15
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing METIS:

14% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
12% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
6% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
CRONY 5.79 bits
12.1% →
DROLE 5.17 bits
5.8% →
SNARL 5.02 bits
5.3% →
CLARY 4.84 bits
4.9% →
CLARY 4.90 bits
4.8% →
TROUT 5.10 bits
4.5% →
PHARE 4.99 bits
4.4% →
DINER 4.91 bits
3.5% →
TRACE 4.86 bits
3.3% →
ROAST 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1T1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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