5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

MISSY

MISSY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 84.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.i/

Noun

A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.

“That's enough out of you, missy!”

Noun

A female nurse.

Adjective

Girlish; effeminate; sentimental.

Adjective

Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 MISSY performs as a guess

MISSY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.8% of games, misses completely in 34.2%, and leaves about 364 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,095 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__S_ M in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRACE CRANE PEART DROLE RONTE ROATE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.76 Entropy (bits)
364 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MISSY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,095 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MISSY ranks #12,095 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
721
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
323
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
33%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
M I S S Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MISSY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

806
274
228
194
116
93
87
67
52
32
31
29
27
27
25
23
19
19
18
17
14
12
11
9
9
8
7
7
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MISSY:

34% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
12% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
10% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.2% →
TRACE 6.27 bits
11.6% →
CRANE 5.46 bits
9.7% →
PEART 5.37 bits
8.2% →
DROLE 4.83 bits
4.9% →
RONTE 4.82 bits
3.9% →
ROATE 5.15 bits
3.7% →
ROATE 5.04 bits
2.8% →
TRINE 4.37 bits
2.2% →
RONTE 4.79 bits
1.4% →
PALET 2.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1S1S1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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