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

MIXTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /miːkst/

Noun

A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond frame is replaced with a pair of smaller lateral tubes running from the top of the head tube all the way back to the rear axle, connecting at the seat tube on the way.

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 MIXTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MIXTE 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,961 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 MIXTE 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.

4.34 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MIXTE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,961 Rank among openers
Opening with MIXTE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,961 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
19
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:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
33%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

MIXTE can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
301 answers
227 answers
180 answers
173 answers
130 answers
82 answers
71 answers
66 answers
54 answers
50 answers
46 answers
43 answers
38 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3I1X8T1E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing MIXTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MIXTE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SALON
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8%
SALON 5.86 bits
12.7%
SOLAR 5.27 bits
9.6%
SORAL 4.96 bits
7.6%
COAST 5.34 bits
7.3%
SNAIL 5.09 bits
5.5%
SLART 4.95 bits
3.5%
SLANT 4.72 bits
3.0%
CRAMP 4.87 bits
2.8%
SADLY 3.98 bits
2.3%
SONAR 3.83 bits

Research on MIXTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MIXTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,434 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,865 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it MIHKST.

Rhymes with FIXED MIXED NIXED

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MIXTE 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).