5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MILTZ

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The spleen of an animal used as food.

Alternative forms: milts

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 MILTZ performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MILTZ 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 72.0% of games, misses completely in 28.0%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,866 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position

Try next

SOARE CRANE SNARE SONDE PORAE ALOSE
Words starting with M Words ending with Z

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MILTZ 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,866 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MILTZ ranks #10,866 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
773
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
293
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
1 vowels
Common:
ILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
22%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

660
275
271
182
93
90
89
80
80
66
65
53
30
28
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MILTZ:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.0% →
SOARE 6.20 bits
11.7% →
SOARE 5.38 bits
11.5% →
SOARE 5.73 bits
7.7% →
CRANE 5.48 bits
3.9% →
SNARE 4.70 bits
3.8% →
SONDE 4.68 bits
3.8% →
PORAE 5.13 bits
3.4% →
SOARE 4.84 bits
3.4% →
CRANE 4.26 bits
2.8% →
ALOSE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1L1T1Z10
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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