5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MINES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /maɪnz/

Noun

plural of mine

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mine

Pronoun

Alternative form of mine (“belonging to me”).

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 MINES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MINES 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 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,623 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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

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CORAL REATE SLART TRAIL GRANT ROANY
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MINES 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,623 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MINES ranks #3,623 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,173
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

341
295
170
140
125
119
100
70
68
58
57
53
46
43
42
37
36
29
25
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MINES:

14% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
13% chance
Suggested:
REATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
CORAL 5.91 bits
12.5% →
REATE 5.52 bits
7.2% →
SLART 5.39 bits
5.9% →
REATE 4.11 bits
5.3% →
SLART 5.03 bits
5.0% →
TRAIL 5.37 bits
4.2% →
GRANT 4.97 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 4.18 bits
2.9% →
DIRTY 3.96 bits
2.5% →
TRADE 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1N1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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