5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIEVE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete form of move.

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 MIEVE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIEVE 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 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,065 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__V_ M in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST LATER SLANT SLART SLATY CRAMP
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIEVE 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,065 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIEVE ranks #12,065 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
327
6 guesses
24
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:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
36%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

699
258
253
201
92
85
83
58
58
54
52
36
30
29
25
24
23
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22
19
17
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11
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9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIEVE:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
11% chance
Suggested:
LATER
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.6% →
ROAST 5.96 bits
10.9% →
LATER 5.27 bits
10.7% →
SLANT 5.50 bits
8.5% →
SLART 5.20 bits
3.9% →
SLATY 4.17 bits
3.6% →
CRAMP 4.86 bits
3.5% →
SLART 4.99 bits
2.5% →
SAUNT 4.04 bits
2.5% →
FRIED 4.50 bits
2.3% →
ROANY 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1E1V4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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