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

MIGGS

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

No dictionary definition for MIGGS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use MIGGS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% 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 MIGGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIGGS 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 63.0% of games, misses completely in 37.0%, and leaves about 438 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,297 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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 MIGGS 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.

3.43 Entropy (bits)
438 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIGGS 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#13,297 Rank among openers
Opening with MIGGS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,297 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
656
4 guesses
1,305
5 guesses
337
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
19%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

MIGGS can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

881 answers
390 answers
253 answers
120 answers
99 answers
93 answers
84 answers
66 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1G2G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing MIGGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIGGS:

37% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
16% chance
Suggested:
STARE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.0% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
16.4% →
STARE 5.67 bits
10.6% →
TRACE 5.49 bits
5.0% →
RATEL 4.57 bits
4.2% →
BLAER 5.23 bits
3.9% →
STILE 4.50 bits
3.5% →
ALURE 5.15 bits
2.8% →
CARET 4.81 bits
1.5% →
ROULE 4.26 bits
1.5% →
EARLY 3.90 bits

Research on MIGGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIGGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,252 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,130 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MIGGS 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).