5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIAOW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

UK spelling of meow.

Verb

UK spelling of meow.

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 MIAOW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIAOW 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,816 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__W I in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

SLEER TALER CRUSE TRINE STURE RONTE
Words starting with M Words ending with W

First-turn measures

4.42 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIAOW 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,816 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIAOW ranks #9,816 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
793
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
25
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
31%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

372
305
280
222
201
126
65
64
54
46
46
44
35
28
28
27
26
25
24
24
24
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19
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIAOW:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
12% chance
Suggested:
CRUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
SLEER 5.80 bits
12.9% →
TALER 5.53 bits
11.9% →
CRUSE 5.43 bits
9.4% →
TRINE 5.37 bits
8.5% →
STURE 4.98 bits
5.3% →
RONTE 4.31 bits
2.8% →
NADIR 4.40 bits
2.7% →
TONAL 4.51 bits
2.3% →
DROLE 4.53 bits
2.0% →
TRODE 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1A1O1W4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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