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

MURID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of or belonging to the family Muridae.

Noun

Any rodent in the family Muridae.

Noun

A Sufi novice committed to enlightenment under a spiritual guide.

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 MURID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MURID 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 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,829 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MURID.

First-turn measures

All four describe MURID 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MURID 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,829 Rank among openers
Opening with MURID left 2 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,829 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
950
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
27%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

MURID can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

567 answers
303 answers
231 answers
117 answers
99 answers
86 answers
76 answers
67 answers
64 answers
60 answers
55 answers
44 answers
40 answers
35 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1R1I1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLATE TEASE SIENT SLANT TRINE CASTE

Strategy after playing MURID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MURID:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
10% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
SLATE 6.43 bits
12.8% →
TEASE 5.29 bits
9.7% →
SIENT 5.34 bits
4.9% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
4.2% →
TRINE 4.41 bits
3.6% →
CASTE 5.04 bits
3.2% →
DEALT 5.08 bits
2.8% →
SONLY 4.18 bits
2.7% →
SOCLE 5.02 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.82 bits

Research on MURID

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

Optimal play

Opening with MURID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,420 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 MURID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MYUURIHD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MURID sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).