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

MIDDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A midshipman.

Noun

A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot.

Alternative forms: middie

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 MIDDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIDDY 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 57.6% of games, misses completely in 42.4%, and leaves about 506 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,591 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__D_ M in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MIDDY.

First-turn measures

All four describe MIDDY 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.

3.38 Entropy (bits)
506 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIDDY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,591 Rank among openers
Opening with MIDDY left 6 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,591 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
670
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
384
6 guesses
28
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
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
29%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

MIDDY can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1007 answers
305 answers
203 answers
121 answers
117 answers
113 answers
52 answers
48 answers
32 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1D2D2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TARSE TRINE SORAL BRANE SOARE RONTE

Strategy after playing MIDDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIDDY:

42% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.4% →
TARSE 6.39 bits
12.8% →
TRINE 5.46 bits
8.6% →
SORAL 4.89 bits
5.1% →
BRANE 5.31 bits
4.9% →
SOARE 5.36 bits
4.8% →
RONTE 4.83 bits
2.2% →
CANER 4.76 bits
2.0% →
TALER 4.57 bits
1.3% →
LAYER 4.50 bits
1.3% →
SLANT 3.08 bits

Research on MIDDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIDDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,795 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 MIDDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87; proven optimal play reaches 3.85. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MIHDEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MIDDY is a kind of blouse.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MIDDY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).