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MINER

Yes, MINER was the Wordle answer on October 5, 2024 (Wordle #1204).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/

Noun

A person who works in a mine.

“The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.”

Noun

An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 5, 2024 (#1204).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How MINER performs as a guess

MINER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,700 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position MI_ER M in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST CRATE SLANT SHALT
Words starting with M Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.13 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MINER 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,700 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MINER ranks #1,700 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
996
4 guesses
1,084
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
EINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
F U N G I
M I N E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MINER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

320
270
183
149
104
95
92
69
68
59
56
53
52
49
48
42
29
27
26
26
26
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23
21
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19
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MINER:

14% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
SAULT 6.01 bits
11.5% →
SLATE 5.91 bits
7.8% →
COAST 5.62 bits
6.3% →
CRATE 4.92 bits
4.4% →
SAULT 5.18 bits
4.0% →
COAST 5.04 bits
3.9% →
COAST 3.57 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.74 bits
2.9% →
SHALT 4.28 bits
2.5% →
BETEL 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1N1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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