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

MUSEE

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

No dictionary definition for MUSEE is recorded in our sourced data.

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

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MUSEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUSEE 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 75.2% of games, misses completely in 24.8%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,433 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MUSEE 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUSEE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,433 Rank among openers
Opening with MUSEE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,433 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
42%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

MUSEE can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

589 answers
216 answers
198 answers
158 answers
157 answers
98 answers
86 answers
80 answers
64 answers
54 answers
51 answers
47 answers
47 answers
37 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1S1E1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MUSEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUSEE:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALON
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
DEALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.8%
TALON 5.88 bits
9.1%
SLANT 5.25 bits
8.3%
DEALT 5.36 bits
6.7%
RAINY 4.42 bits
6.6%
ORATE 4.27 bits
4.1%
COUNT 4.69 bits
3.6%
CLARY 4.30 bits
3.4%
SLANT 4.13 bits
2.7%
SHUNT 4.26 bits
2.3%
LOAMY 4.88 bits

Research on MUSEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUSEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,642 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 MUSEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.76. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 MYOOZEE.

Rhymes with THREE AGREE SPREE LOUIE JOLIE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MUSEE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).