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

MUTER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of mute: more mute

Noun

Something that mutes sound.

“The violinist often uses a muter when she practices.”

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 MUTER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUTER 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,751 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MUTER 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUTER 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,751 Rank among openers
Opening with MUTER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,751 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
17
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:
ERTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
30%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

MUTER can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

350 answers
257 answers
180 answers
151 answers
137 answers
103 answers
94 answers
78 answers
75 answers
74 answers
55 answers
50 answers
41 answers
39 answers
38 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1T1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANE CAIRN SAINT PEARE SHALT

Strategy after playing MUTER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUTER:

15% chance
Suggested:
SALON
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SALON 5.98 bits
10.8% →
SLANE 5.50 bits
7.6% →
CAIRN 5.08 bits
6.4% →
SAINT 5.39 bits
5.8% →
PEARE 4.53 bits
4.3% →
SHALT 5.13 bits
4.0% →
SOILY 3.58 bits
3.3% →
ALIEN 4.38 bits
3.2% →
TRAIT 4.65 bits
3.1% →
SLUNK 4.68 bits

Research on MUTER

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUTER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,709 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 MUTER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 MYOOTUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MUTER is a kind of someone or device.

Synonyms dumb silent dull damp unspoken

Opposites articulate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MUTER 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).