5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIFTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Obsolete form of miffy.

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 MIFTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIFTY 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 69.7% of games, misses completely in 30.3%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,716 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SOARE CRANE SORAL SNARE RANCE URASE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.04 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIFTY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,716 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIFTY ranks #8,716 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
817
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

715
293
218
185
98
96
85
67
59
45
31
31
27
26
25
24
24
22
21
20
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12
12
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9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIFTY:

30% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.3% →
SOARE 6.16 bits
12.4% →
SOARE 5.69 bits
9.2% →
CRANE 5.43 bits
7.8% →
SORAL 4.88 bits
4.2% →
SOARE 5.27 bits
4.1% →
SNARE 4.74 bits
3.6% →
RANCE 4.89 bits
2.8% →
URASE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.78 bits
1.9% →
CANER 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1F4T1Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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