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

MIRRS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of MIRR

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 MIRRS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIRRS 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 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 250 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,520 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 MIRRS 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.

4.18 Entropy (bits)
250 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIRRS 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
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,520 Rank among openers
Opening with MIRRS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,520 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

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

586 answers
292 answers
277 answers
191 answers
110 answers
85 answers
82 answers
72 answers
68 answers
63 answers
51 answers
50 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1R1R1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing MIRRS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIRRS:

25% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
12% chance
Suggested:
STALE
12% chance
Suggested:
POTAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7%
ALONE 6.07 bits
12.3%
STALE 5.72 bits
11.7%
POTAE 5.21 bits
8.0%
LEANT 5.45 bits
4.6%
TONEY 4.54 bits
3.6%
TRIED 4.72 bits
3.5%
LEANT 4.61 bits
3.0%
OLATE 4.91 bits
2.9%
COATE 4.89 bits
2.7%
THALE 4.85 bits

Research on MIRRS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIRRS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,423 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,463 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it MURS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.