5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MITIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay.

Noun

The malleable iron produced by this technique.

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 MITIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MITIS 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 315 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,594 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MI_IS M in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE PARLE TREAT SOARE CRANE BLAER
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
315 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MITIS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,594 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MITIS ranks #10,594 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
277
6 guesses
24
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
2 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
24%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

738
262
224
140
135
96
95
67
63
59
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24
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MITIS:

31% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
TREAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
CARLE 6.17 bits
11.1% →
PARLE 5.60 bits
9.5% →
TREAT 5.48 bits
5.9% →
SOARE 4.89 bits
5.7% →
CRANE 5.13 bits
4.1% →
BLAER 5.29 bits
4.0% →
PLANE 4.46 bits
2.8% →
CANER 4.71 bits
2.7% →
CRANE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
COREY 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1T1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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