5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MULED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of mule

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 MULED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MULED 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,815 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT STARE COAST SONAR SLATE CRUST
Words starting with M Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MULED 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,815 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MULED ranks #3,815 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

470
326
180
151
114
94
69
64
64
54
53
48
47
43
38
33
32
23
22
20
18
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MULED:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
SAINT 6.16 bits
13.8% →
STARE 5.56 bits
7.6% →
COAST 5.27 bits
6.4% →
SONAR 4.73 bits
4.8% →
SLATE 4.87 bits
4.0% →
CRUST 5.23 bits
2.9% →
ROANY 4.96 bits
2.7% →
IRADE 4.65 bits
2.7% →
SNARY 4.14 bits
2.3% →
ARENE 3.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1L1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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