5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIAIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of miai

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 MIAIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIAIS 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,626 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MI_IS M in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE TALER ROUET TRUCE RONTE THALE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIAIS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,626 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIAIS ranks #11,626 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
740
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
323
6 guesses
18
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

541
345
229
154
143
121
93
85
67
62
56
36
35
35
33
26
24
20
20
17
15
15
15
14
12
9
9
8
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIAIS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
TRONE 5.91 bits
14.6% →
TALER 5.57 bits
9.7% →
ROUET 5.43 bits
6.5% →
TRONE 5.23 bits
6.1% →
TRUCE 4.99 bits
5.1% →
RONTE 4.66 bits
3.9% →
THALE 4.25 bits
3.6% →
SALET 4.74 bits
2.8% →
TRONE 4.08 bits
2.6% →
ROUTE 4.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1A1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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