5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MUSSY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.

Noun

Pronunciation spelling of mercy, representing African-American Vernacular English.

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 MUSSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUSSY 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 59.3% of games, misses completely in 40.7%, and leaves about 458 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,413 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__S_ M in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL TIARE TALER TRONE LATER ROATE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.56 Entropy (bits)
458 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUSSY 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,413 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUSSY ranks #13,413 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
680
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
384
6 guesses
29
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
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
32%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

959
242
207
150
90
87
83
62
56
35
33
32
32
29
23
23
16
15
15
13
12
10
10
9
8
7
5
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUSSY:

41% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.7% →
ARIEL 6.15 bits
10.3% →
TIARE 5.25 bits
8.8% →
TALER 4.80 bits
6.4% →
TRONE 5.43 bits
3.8% →
ARIEL 5.23 bits
3.7% →
LATER 4.77 bits
3.5% →
ROATE 5.14 bits
2.6% →
CARNE 4.89 bits
2.4% →
STUNK 4.17 bits
1.5% →
ALONE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1S1S1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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