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IMAUM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of imam.

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 IMAUM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts IMAUM 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 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 290 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,111 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.

I___M I in the 1st position and M in the 5th position I__U_ I in the 1st position and U in the 4th position

Try next

SOREL TRINE TALER STORE STURE CAIRN
Words starting with I Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.71 Entropy (bits)
290 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How IMAUM 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.76 Volatility
#14,111 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, IMAUM ranks #14,111 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
626
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
424
6 guesses
36
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
20%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

518
381
379
229
224
89
48
48
44
44
43
42
39
29
22
18
11
11
10
10
10
8
8
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6
6
6
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IMAUM:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
16% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0% →
SOREL 5.83 bits
16.2% →
TRINE 5.34 bits
16.1% →
TALER 5.61 bits
9.7% →
STORE 4.96 bits
9.5% →
STURE 5.12 bits
3.8% →
CAIRN 4.36 bits
2.0% →
STORE 4.57 bits
2.0% →
GUILT 4.40 bits
1.9% →
METRO 4.65 bits
1.9% →
MORNE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1M3A1U1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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