5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIMES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mime

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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 MIMES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIMES 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,979 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MI_ES M in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LEARE SLANT TRAIN SOLAR SLART
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.15 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIMES 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,979 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIMES ranks #11,979 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
701
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
23
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

483
368
218
196
178
144
89
83
65
45
40
39
33
28
28
25
22
20
19
19
19
16
12
11
10
10
10
9
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIMES:

20% chance
Suggested:
TALON
16% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
TALON 5.79 bits
15.6% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
9.2% →
SLANT 5.24 bits
8.3% →
TRAIN 5.43 bits
7.5% →
SOLAR 4.03 bits
6.1% →
SLART 4.97 bits
3.8% →
SALTY 3.72 bits
3.5% →
TRINE 4.54 bits
2.8% →
STINK 4.45 bits
1.9% →
STEER 3.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1M3E1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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