5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MURES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mure

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 MURES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MURES 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,950 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__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LIANE TRAIN SLANT TRADE TOILE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MURES 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#3,950 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MURES ranks #3,950 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,137
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

355
251
184
170
124
119
118
82
68
62
47
45
41
38
32
32
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MURES:

15% chance
Suggested:
TALON
11% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
TALON 5.90 bits
10.6% →
LIANE 5.36 bits
7.8% →
TRAIN 5.27 bits
7.2% →
SLANT 5.24 bits
5.3% →
TRADE 4.75 bits
5.0% →
TOILE 3.38 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 4.94 bits
3.5% →
LEANT 4.27 bits
2.9% →
COULD 4.47 bits
2.6% →
TUNIC 3.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1R1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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