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

MYOID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.ɔɪd/

Adjective

Composed of or resembling muscle.

Noun

A muscle-like structure.

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 MYOID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MYOID 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,421 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 MYOID 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MYOID 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,421 Rank among openers
Opening with MYOID left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,421 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
825
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
15
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:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
25%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

MYOID can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

649 answers
274 answers
194 answers
164 answers
159 answers
81 answers
80 answers
65 answers
50 answers
47 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
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19 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
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14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3Y4O1I1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MYOID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MYOID:

27% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3%
REAST 6.36 bits
11.5%
TRINE 5.47 bits
8.2%
CARET 5.53 bits
6.9%
REAST 4.70 bits
6.7%
SLART 5.16 bits
3.4%
SPAER 5.22 bits
3.4%
SLART 5.11 bits
2.7%
LEARE 4.88 bits
2.1%
SIENT 3.79 bits
2.0%
BALER 3.94 bits

Research on MYOID

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

Optimal play

Opening with MYOID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,111 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 MYOID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 MYOHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.