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

MILOR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of milord (“English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style”).

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 MILOR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MILOR 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,152 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 MILOR 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.

4.97 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MILOR 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,152 Rank among openers
Opening with MILOR solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,152 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,108
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
9
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:
ILOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
27%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

MILOR can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

345 answers
244 answers
202 answers
157 answers
147 answers
123 answers
81 answers
80 answers
79 answers
74 answers
68 answers
44 answers
42 answers
37 answers
37 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1L1O1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MILOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MILOR:

15% chance
Suggested:
STANE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
STANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5%
STANE 6.20 bits
10.3%
CRATE 5.63 bits
8.5%
STANE 5.36 bits
6.6%
STONE 5.10 bits
6.2%
STANE 5.56 bits
5.2%
STONE 4.53 bits
3.4%
TRIPE 4.60 bits
3.4%
COATE 4.41 bits
3.3%
CASTE 4.20 bits
3.1%
SLATE 4.45 bits

Research on MILOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with MILOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,690 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 MILOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 MYLUR. 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.