5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MISLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of misl

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 MISLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MISLS 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 302 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,509 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE PEART TRINE RONTE LADLE STANE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
302 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MISLS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,509 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MISLS ranks #9,509 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
254
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
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
23%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

695
268
258
211
109
84
76
71
67
56
55
34
27
26
24
24
23
23
15
14
13
13
13
11
11
10
9
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MISLS:

29% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
11% chance
Suggested:
PEART
11% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
ROATE 6.19 bits
11.4% →
PEART 5.71 bits
10.9% →
ROATE 5.32 bits
8.9% →
TRINE 5.71 bits
4.6% →
RONTE 4.73 bits
3.6% →
ROATE 5.22 bits
3.2% →
LADLE 4.28 bits
3.0% →
STANE 4.52 bits
2.8% →
CRANE 4.43 bits
2.4% →
COREY 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1S1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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