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

MUIRS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of muir

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

Use MUIRS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% 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 MUIRS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUIRS 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,396 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 MUIRS 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUIRS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,396 Rank among openers
Opening with MUIRS left 2 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,396 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
967
4 guesses
1,100
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IRSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

MUIRS can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

439 answers
305 answers
221 answers
170 answers
90 answers
89 answers
79 answers
62 answers
61 answers
60 answers
54 answers
52 answers
51 answers
48 answers
44 answers
40 answers
39 answers
31 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1I1R1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MUIRS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUIRS:

18% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
13% chance
Suggested:
POTAE
9% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
LEANT 6.04 bits
12.8% →
POTAE 5.22 bits
9.3% →
STALE 5.74 bits
7.1% →
LEANT 5.07 bits
3.8% →
ALONE 4.87 bits
3.7% →
CLOTE 5.16 bits
3.3% →
DIANE 4.37 bits
2.6% →
BEATY 4.82 bits
2.6% →
LEANT 4.08 bits
2.5% →
STOAE 4.60 bits

Research on MUIRS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUIRS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,654 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,012 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).