Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

MIRRL

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

No dictionary definition for MIRRL is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use MIRRL in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MIRRL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIRRL 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,237 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MIRRL used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIRRL 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,237 Rank among openers
Opening with MIRRL left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,237 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
30%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

MIRRL can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

542 answers
287 answers
278 answers
184 answers
95 answers
90 answers
83 answers
80 answers
78 answers
69 answers
69 answers
46 answers
35 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1R1R1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MIRRL

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MIRRL.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIRRL:

23% chance
Suggested:
STANE
12% chance
Suggested:
POTAE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
STANE 6.17 bits
12.0% →
POTAE 5.27 bits
11.7% →
ALOSE 5.41 bits
7.7% →
STANE 5.54 bits
4.0% →
CONTE 4.52 bits
3.8% →
SCOTE 4.90 bits
3.5% →
STADE 4.89 bits
3.4% →
TRIED 4.69 bits
3.3% →
POTAE 4.49 bits
2.9% →
GLACE 4.36 bits

Research on MIRRL

Game-tree analysis and word research for MIRRL, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with MIRRL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,434 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,113 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).