5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MIRED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of mire

Adjective

Stuck in mud; plunged or fixed in mud.

Adjective

Involved in trouble or difficulty.

Noun

A unit of measurement for color temperature.

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 MIRED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIRED 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #813 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___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

Try next

SLANT SLATE COAST TRACE SOLAR SHALT
Words starting with M Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.03 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIRED 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#813 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIRED ranks #813 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
1,002
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
13
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:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
33%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

391
279
157
156
117
100
75
71
62
61
60
53
53
43
39
31
26
24
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIRED:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SLANT 6.03 bits
11.8% →
SLATE 5.86 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.66 bits
6.6% →
COAST 5.53 bits
5.0% →
TRACE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
SOLAR 3.62 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.67 bits
3.0% →
SHALT 4.44 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.74 bits
2.6% →
STANE 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1R1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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