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

MYALS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of myal

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MYALS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How MYALS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MYALS 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 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,339 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MYALS 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MYALS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,339 Rank among openers
Opening with MYALS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,339 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
26%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

MYALS can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

503 answers
234 answers
210 answers
161 answers
126 answers
116 answers
105 answers
65 answers
60 answers
58 answers
56 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
38 answers
34 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3Y4A1L1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MYALS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MYALS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
TRINE 6.34 bits
9.8% →
TRONE 5.51 bits
8.8% →
TONER 5.47 bits
6.8% →
RIONE 5.00 bits
5.3% →
RIONE 4.82 bits
4.9% →
RATEL 4.75 bits
4.4% →
DRICE 4.95 bits
2.7% →
STURE 4.23 bits
2.5% →
TARDY 3.93 bits
2.4% →
BOITE 4.90 bits

Research on MYALS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MYALS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,463 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,124 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).