5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAAED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of maa

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 MAAED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAAED 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,109 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

M___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position MA_ED M in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST CRISE SENOR SLANT SONLY TONAL
Words starting with M Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAAED 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
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,109 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAAED ranks #11,109 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
18
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
44%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

515
331
177
126
121
116
90
77
64
61
60
45
43
43
37
33
27
22
22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAAED:

22% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
14% chance
Suggested:
CRISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SENOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
HOIST 5.87 bits
14.0% →
CRISE 5.20 bits
7.5% →
SENOR 4.44 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.72 bits
5.1% →
SONLY 4.40 bits
4.9% →
TONAL 5.29 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.46 bits
3.3% →
ALERT 4.54 bits
2.7% →
DIRGE 4.27 bits
2.6% →
PRIMO 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1A1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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