5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

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 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,829 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__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

Try next

SLATE TEASE SIENT SLANT TRINE CASTE
Words starting with M Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,829 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MURID 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 (3.45 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

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

563
302
226
115
99
86
75
67
64
59
55
44
40
35
27
24
24
24
23
22
17
16
16
15
14
14
13
13
12
12

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 5.28 bits
9.6% →
SIENT 5.33 bits
4.9% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
4.2% →
TRINE 4.41 bits
3.6% →
CASTE 5.04 bits
3.2% →
DEALT 5.10 bits
2.8% →
SONLY 4.18 bits
2.7% →
SOCLE 5.02 bits
2.5% →
LEANT 4.70 bits

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.