5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIRIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than saké and used in cooking.

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 MIRIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIRIN 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 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 281 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,566 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___N M in the 1st position and N in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE COATE CASTE STALE SATED PAUSE
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.11 Entropy (bits)
281 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIRIN 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,566 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIRIN ranks #8,566 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
20
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:
INR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
28%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

649
375
195
111
103
83
81
68
67
56
51
46
43
39
33
31
27
23
19
18
16
13
11
11
11
10
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10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIRIN:

28% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
16% chance
Suggested:
COATE
8% chance
Suggested:
COATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.5% →
SLATE 6.52 bits
15.9% →
COATE 5.43 bits
8.3% →
COATE 5.25 bits
4.7% →
CASTE 5.07 bits
4.4% →
STALE 5.28 bits
3.5% →
SATED 4.28 bits
3.4% →
PAUSE 5.01 bits
2.9% →
TRAPE 4.41 bits
2.8% →
STAGE 4.32 bits
2.4% →
PALET 4.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1R1I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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