5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MIRZA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪəzə//ˈməːzə/

Noun

An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.

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 MIRZA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIRZA 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,366 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position M__Z_ M in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

STOLE SLATE SOLED STILE LEAST CLOTE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.14 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MIRZA 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,366 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MIRZA ranks #11,366 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
735
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
18
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:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

448
399
250
200
187
114
85
83
66
55
37
36
34
33
30
25
22
20
19
17
10
10
10
9
9
8
8
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIRZA:

19% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
STOLE 5.99 bits
16.9% →
SLATE 5.71 bits
10.6% →
SOLED 4.96 bits
8.5% →
STILE 5.30 bits
7.9% →
LEAST 4.71 bits
4.8% →
CLOTE 4.37 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 4.49 bits
3.5% →
SHUTE 4.80 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.53 bits
2.3% →
POLEY 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1R1Z10A1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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