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

MACKA

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use MACKA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 80.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How MACKA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MACKA 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 60.3% of games, misses completely in 39.7%, and leaves about 463 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,817 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MACKA 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)
463 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MACKA 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,817 Rank among openers
Opening with MACKA left 2 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 3.84 average. It ranks #12,817 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
672
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
22%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

MACKA can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

947 answers
332 answers
186 answers
182 answers
99 answers
70 answers
51 answers
48 answers
43 answers
39 answers
38 answers
30 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1C3K5A1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing MACKA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MACKA:

40% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.7% →
TOILE 5.99 bits
13.9% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
7.8% →
TORSE 4.87 bits
7.6% →
NOIRE 5.38 bits
4.2% →
ROULE 5.10 bits
2.9% →
STARE 4.89 bits
2.1% →
RUOTE 4.73 bits
2.0% →
STILE 4.79 bits
1.8% →
ALOSE 4.42 bits
1.6% →
CONTE 4.08 bits

Research on MACKA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MACKA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,926 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,586 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MACKA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).