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

MUIDS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of muid

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MUIDS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How MUIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUIDS 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,284 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 MUIDS 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUIDS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,284 Rank among openers
Opening with MUIDS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,284 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
26%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

MUIDS can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

652 answers
291 answers
194 answers
119 answers
116 answers
107 answers
79 answers
68 answers
67 answers
61 answers
57 answers
51 answers
51 answers
38 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1I1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MUIDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUIDS:

27% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
RATEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
CARLE 6.22 bits
12.2% →
STARE 5.69 bits
8.1% →
RATEL 5.23 bits
5.0% →
CRANE 4.99 bits
4.9% →
DROLE 5.46 bits
4.5% →
CLOTE 5.30 bits
3.3% →
LATER 4.61 bits
2.9% →
ROATE 5.07 bits
2.8% →
SHART 4.30 bits
2.6% →
TRONE 4.10 bits

Research on MUIDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUIDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,955 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 MUIDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).