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MIMED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of mime

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 MIMED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIMED 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 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 292 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,676 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MIMED.

First-turn measures

All four describe MIMED 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.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
292 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIMED 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,676 Rank among openers
Opening with MIMED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,676 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
314
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
30%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MIMED can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

614 answers
435 answers
225 answers
193 answers
90 answers
89 answers
75 answers
68 answers
57 answers
43 answers
41 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1M3E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ROAST SLART SLANT SOLAR SALTY SENTE

Strategy after playing MIMED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIMED:

26% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.9% →
ROAST 6.05 bits
18.3% →
SLART 5.85 bits
9.5% →
SLANT 5.61 bits
8.1% →
SOLAR 4.65 bits
3.8% →
SALTY 4.39 bits
3.7% →
SENTE 4.42 bits
3.2% →
DEARE 4.80 bits
2.9% →
DANDY 4.53 bits
2.4% →
CRAMP 4.79 bits
1.8% →
SONAR 4.26 bits

Research on MIMED

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIMED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,920 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 MIMED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

One syllable Say it MYMD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MIMED is a kind of player or playing.

Synonyms MIMIC pantomime

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MIMED sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).