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

MITAS

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

No dictionary definition for MITAS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MITAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MITAS 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,339 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 MITAS 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.

4.88 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MITAS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,339 Rank among openers
Opening with MITAS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,339 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
953
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
24%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

MITAS can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

404 answers
267 answers
147 answers
144 answers
109 answers
97 answers
96 answers
90 answers
81 answers
73 answers
66 answers
56 answers
55 answers
50 answers
50 answers
40 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1T1A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing MITAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MITAS:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
11% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
6% chance
Suggested:
PROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0%
DROLE 5.99 bits
11.2%
LEARN 5.27 bits
6.2%
PROLE 5.26 bits
6.1%
CRINE 5.34 bits
4.6%
CRUET 5.36 bits
4.1%
LEANT 4.61 bits
4.0%
SHALE 4.71 bits
3.8%
DRONE 4.47 bits
3.4%
ROUET 4.74 bits
3.1%
RENAL 4.70 bits

Research on MITAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MITAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,086 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MITAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MEETUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MITAS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).