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

MISOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of miso

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MISOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% 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 MISOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MISOS 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 296 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,689 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 MISOS 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.

3.92 Entropy (bits)
296 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MISOS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,689 Rank among openers
Opening with MISOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,689 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
323
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

MISOS can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

654 answers
314 answers
256 answers
249 answers
136 answers
86 answers
81 answers
76 answers
72 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1S1O1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing MISOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MISOS:

27% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.4% →
CARLE 6.17 bits
13.2% →
TRONE 5.14 bits
10.7% →
CRANE 5.44 bits
10.4% →
STALE 5.61 bits
5.7% →
RATEL 4.73 bits
3.6% →
RONTE 4.60 bits
3.4% →
TRINE 4.47 bits
3.2% →
PARLE 5.07 bits
3.0% →
TALER 5.00 bits
1.7% →
CAGEY 4.40 bits

Research on MISOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MISOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,941 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,349 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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).