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

MIXER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/

Noun

One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.

Noun

One who mixes or socializes.

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 MIXER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIXER 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,811 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 MIXER 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIXER 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,811 Rank among openers
Opening with MIXER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,811 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
27%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

MIXER can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

461 answers
333 answers
232 answers
176 answers
169 answers
101 answers
90 answers
89 answers
77 answers
74 answers
57 answers
38 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1X8E1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing MIXER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIXER:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4%
SLANT 5.97 bits
14.0%
SLATE 5.76 bits
9.8%
COAST 5.53 bits
7.4%
SLANT 5.61 bits
7.1%
TEASE 4.72 bits
4.3%
COAST 3.60 bits
3.8%
SLANT 4.75 bits
3.7%
SALTY 4.11 bits
3.2%
SLANT 4.45 bits
3.1%
SAINT 4.39 bits

Research on MIXER

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIXER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,216 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 MIXER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 MIHKSUR.

Rhymes with FIXER SIXER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MIXER is a kind of party or drink.

Synonyms social

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MIXER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Is this sink mixer new?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I met my wife at a mixer party.
© tatoeba.org contributor end (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).