5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

AMBAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Chinese official under the Qing Dynasty, especially the ranking official or provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule.

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 AMBAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMBAN 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 378 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,168 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

A___N A in the 1st position and N in the 5th position A__A_ A in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

Try next

TOILE TARSE TOISE MOUSE ROUET CRUET
Words starting with A Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
378 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AMBAN 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,168 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AMBAN ranks #11,168 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
736
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
20%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

808
356
244
122
90
86
82
57
54
52
37
26
23
22
20
17
15
15
14
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11
11
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9
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8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMBAN:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.3% →
TOILE 5.97 bits
15.1% →
TARSE 5.63 bits
10.3% →
TOISE 5.43 bits
5.2% →
MOUSE 4.85 bits
3.8% →
ROUET 5.15 bits
3.6% →
CRUET 4.65 bits
3.5% →
TARSE 4.26 bits
2.4% →
CARLE 4.68 bits
2.3% →
SOWER 4.57 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3B3A1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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