5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MILLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mɪlz/

Noun

plural of mill

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mill

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 MILLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MILLS 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 303 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,831 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE CLEAR TRINE RONTE COREY CRANE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
303 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MILLS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,831 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MILLS ranks #8,831 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
829
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

695
315
213
211
109
84
78
56
54
51
48
34
27
27
24
20
20
19
19
17
16
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12
11
11
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9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MILLS:

29% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLEAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
ROATE 6.19 bits
13.4% →
ROATE 5.66 bits
9.0% →
CLEAR 5.33 bits
8.9% →
TRINE 5.71 bits
4.6% →
RONTE 4.73 bits
3.6% →
ROATE 5.22 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.61 bits
2.4% →
COREY 4.70 bits
2.3% →
CRANE 4.41 bits
2.2% →
SHAPE 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1L1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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