5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MILER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪləɹ/

Noun

An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.

Noun

A race whose length is the specified number of miles.

“I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.”

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 MILER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MILER 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,629 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position MI_ER M in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAUNT TEASE COAST SAINT SLATE PITHY
Words starting with M Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.21 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MILER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,629 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MILER ranks #2,629 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,111
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
EILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
30%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

272
208
201
156
147
114
106
83
68
62
58
58
54
41
38
35
31
30
27
25
24
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21
18
18
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MILER:

12% chance
Suggested:
SAUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5% →
SAUNT 5.90 bits
8.8% →
TEASE 5.48 bits
8.5% →
COAST 5.62 bits
6.6% →
COAST 4.92 bits
6.2% →
COAST 5.30 bits
4.8% →
SAINT 5.40 bits
4.5% →
SLATE 4.83 bits
3.5% →
COAST 3.59 bits
2.9% →
PITHY 3.98 bits
2.6% →
SNIDE 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1L1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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