5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MICOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mico

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 MICOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MICOS 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,351 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MI_OS M in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALER STALE TRODE TRINE CARLE LATER
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.50 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MICOS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,351 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MICOS ranks #4,351 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
15
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:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
21%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

492
254
243
199
134
109
80
79
63
61
59
50
38
32
28
25
24
21
20
19
18
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MICOS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRODE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
TALER 6.08 bits
10.8% →
STALE 5.70 bits
10.3% →
TRODE 5.18 bits
8.4% →
TRINE 5.65 bits
5.7% →
CARLE 5.52 bits
4.6% →
LATER 4.71 bits
3.4% →
STORE 4.70 bits
3.4% →
TRINE 4.61 bits
2.7% →
ALURE 5.03 bits
2.6% →
CRONE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1C3O1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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