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

MYOPS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A myope; a person who has myopia.

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

Use MYOPS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% 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 MYOPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MYOPS 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 299 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,170 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 MYOPS 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.

4.11 Entropy (bits)
299 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MYOPS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,170 Rank among openers
Opening with MYOPS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,170 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
826
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
19%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

MYOPS can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

716 answers
276 answers
220 answers
168 answers
110 answers
101 answers
65 answers
60 answers
53 answers
52 answers
50 answers
40 answers
38 answers
31 answers
30 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3Y4O1P3S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing MYOPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MYOPS:

30% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
STANE
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
11.6% →
STANE 5.62 bits
9.2% →
TONER 5.45 bits
7.0% →
RATEL 4.92 bits
4.6% →
CRATE 4.65 bits
4.2% →
ARIEL 5.37 bits
2.7% →
RAILE 5.26 bits
2.5% →
CARET 4.77 bits
2.2% →
CRUET 4.10 bits
2.2% →
SAULT 4.64 bits

Research on MYOPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MYOPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,874 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,893 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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).