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

MIGOD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Interjection

Alternative form of oh my God.

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 MIGOD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIGOD 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 297 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,717 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MIGOD 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.

4.20 Entropy (bits)
297 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIGOD 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,717 Rank among openers
Opening with MIGOD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,717 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
24%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

MIGOD can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

712 answers
294 answers
236 answers
106 answers
91 answers
88 answers
78 answers
73 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1G2O1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MIGOD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIGOD:

30% chance
Suggested:
LEAST
12% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0%
LEAST 6.36 bits
12.4%
TORSE 5.44 bits
9.9%
SLATE 5.45 bits
4.5%
SLYER 4.50 bits
3.8%
REACT 5.21 bits
3.7%
SHARE 5.26 bits
3.3%
TALER 4.99 bits
3.1%
SNARE 5.09 bits
1.9%
TRONE 4.46 bits
1.8%
SLANE 4.28 bits

Research on MIGOD

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIGOD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,028 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 MIGOD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.