5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MUONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of muon

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 MUONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUONS 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 74.2% of games, misses completely in 25.8%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,708 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__N_ M in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALER STALE LINER BLARE RAILE GRATE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
226 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUONS 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
0.69 Volatility
#3,708 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUONS ranks #3,708 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
952
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
30%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

609
249
175
138
94
85
72
66
63
62
54
42
39
37
37
31
28
25
24
23
23
23
20
20
20
17
17
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUONS:

26% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.8% →
TALER 6.15 bits
10.6% →
STALE 5.75 bits
7.4% →
TALER 5.39 bits
5.9% →
LINER 5.27 bits
4.0% →
BLARE 4.66 bits
3.6% →
RAILE 4.66 bits
3.1% →
GRATE 4.82 bits
2.8% →
CRATE 5.24 bits
2.7% →
TALER 4.60 bits
2.6% →
RAILE 5.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1O1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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