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

MYXOS

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

No dictionary definition for MYXOS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 83.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MYXOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MYXOS 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 65.9% of games, misses completely in 34.1%, and leaves about 392 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,337 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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 MYXOS 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.

3.51 Entropy (bits)
392 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MYXOS 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,337 Rank among openers
Opening with MYXOS left 3 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 3.86 average. It ranks #13,337 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
664
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
346
6 guesses
28
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
1 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
13%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

MYXOS can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

810 answers
337 answers
291 answers
198 answers
95 answers
83 answers
75 answers
65 answers
63 answers
38 answers
34 answers
28 answers
27 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3Y4X8O1S1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing MYXOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MYXOS:

34% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
STANE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.1%
RAILE 6.19 bits
14.2%
STANE 5.58 bits
12.3%
TRONE 5.32 bits
8.3%
TALER 4.83 bits
4.0%
STORE 4.55 bits
3.5%
RAILE 5.31 bits
3.2%
TALER 4.97 bits
2.7%
SAULT 4.45 bits
2.7%
DROLE 4.07 bits
1.6%
NAICE 4.79 bits

Research on MYXOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MYXOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,532 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,302 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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 MIHKSOHS. 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.