5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MACHI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.

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 MACHI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MACHI 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 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 231 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,313 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

M___I M in the 1st position and I in the 5th position M__H_ M in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL TRINE ALERT STOLE TORSE CRONE
Words starting with M Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.28 Entropy (bits)
231 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MACHI 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,313 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MACHI ranks #8,313 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
19%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

524
320
303
159
103
93
72
62
56
54
53
50
42
39
32
30
29
28
24
21
19
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14
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9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MACHI:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2% →
SOREL 6.07 bits
13.6% →
TRINE 5.41 bits
12.8% →
ALERT 5.64 bits
6.7% →
STOLE 4.74 bits
4.4% →
TORSE 5.70 bits
3.9% →
CRONE 5.34 bits
3.1% →
ALANE 4.60 bits
2.6% →
LEAST 4.59 bits
2.4% →
TOILE 4.31 bits
2.3% →
LOURE 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1C3H4I1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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