5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MUSOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of muso

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 MUSOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUSOS 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 65.3% of games, misses completely in 34.7%, and leaves about 376 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,102 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE CRANE STALE LEANT CARLE STORE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
376 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUSOS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,102 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUSOS ranks #12,102 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
737
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
21%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

819
301
265
110
105
83
81
71
53
49
46
34
28
27
25
22
21
20
13
13
12
12
11
9
8
7
7
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUSOS:

35% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.7% →
TIARE 6.13 bits
12.8% →
CRANE 5.30 bits
11.2% →
STALE 5.58 bits
4.7% →
LEANT 5.12 bits
4.5% →
CARLE 4.47 bits
3.5% →
STORE 4.50 bits
3.4% →
TALER 5.05 bits
3.0% →
RAILE 5.26 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.17 bits
2.1% →
NAICE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1S1O1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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