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

MEUMS

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

No dictionary definition for MEUMS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MEUMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MEUMS 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 75.2% of games, misses completely in 24.8%, and leaves about 293 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,420 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MEUMS 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
293 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MEUMS 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,420 Rank among openers
Opening with MEUMS left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,420 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
658
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
365
6 guesses
27
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:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
25%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

MEUMS can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

589 answers
453 answers
228 answers
170 answers
168 answers
119 answers
65 answers
56 answers
43 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1U1M3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing MEUMS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEUMS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALON
19% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.8%
TALON 5.88 bits
19.1%
ARIEL 5.19 bits
9.6%
SLANT 5.22 bits
7.2%
PARTE 4.81 bits
7.1%
LAIRY 4.62 bits
5.0%
CURLY 4.52 bits
2.7%
TRONE 3.99 bits
2.4%
GUIDE 3.84 bits
1.8%
SLANT 4.00 bits
1.6%
RAINY 4.42 bits

Research on MEUMS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MEUMS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,098 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 MEUMS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 MYOOMZ. 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.