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

MIASM

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma.

Noun

A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MIASM in a puzzle

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

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How MIASM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIASM 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 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,422 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MIASM 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.

4.17 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIASM 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,422 Rank among openers
Opening with MIASM left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,422 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
735
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
310
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

MIASM can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

547 answers
350 answers
218 answers
179 answers
143 answers
133 answers
74 answers
69 answers
67 answers
63 answers
62 answers
50 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1A1S1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MIASM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIASM:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
15% chance
Suggested:
RATEL
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
TRONE 5.92 bits
14.7% →
RATEL 5.54 bits
9.1% →
TRINE 5.55 bits
7.5% →
TONER 5.19 bits
6.0% →
CRATE 4.74 bits
5.6% →
RONTE 4.65 bits
3.1% →
ROUTE 5.03 bits
2.9% →
TALER 4.68 bits
2.8% →
TRINE 4.28 bits
2.6% →
CRUET 3.77 bits

Research on MIASM

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIASM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,450 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,679 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).