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

MIHIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mihi

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MIHIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.0% 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 MIHIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIHIS 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 63.5% of games, misses completely in 36.5%, and leaves about 406 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,151 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MIHIS 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.

3.58 Entropy (bits)
406 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIHIS 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
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,151 Rank among openers
Opening with MIHIS 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 3.81 average. It ranks #12,151 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
703
4 guesses
1,296
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
21%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

MIHIS can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

870 answers
321 answers
167 answers
166 answers
113 answers
95 answers
92 answers
88 answers
63 answers
62 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
18 answers
18 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1H4I1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MIHIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIHIS:

36% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.5% →
ROATE 5.98 bits
13.5% →
ROATE 5.65 bits
7.0% →
TRONE 5.24 bits
7.0% →
CARTE 5.81 bits
4.7% →
RONTE 4.74 bits
4.0% →
BLAER 5.25 bits
3.9% →
RATEL 5.04 bits
3.7% →
SLATE 4.77 bits
2.6% →
LEARY 4.82 bits
2.6% →
STANE 4.25 bits

Research on MIHIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIHIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,043 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,089 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).