5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

MACRO

MACRO is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmæk.ɹoʊ//ˈmæk.ɹəʊ/

Adjective

Very large in scale or scope.

Adjective

Clipping of macrobiotic.

Noun

Clipping of macroeconomics.

Noun

Clipping of macromanagement.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 MACRO performs as a guess

MACRO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,089 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___O M in the 1st position and O in the 5th position M__R_ M in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE SEINE STONE SOOTE TRINE
Words starting with M Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MACRO 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,089 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MACRO ranks #2,089 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,110
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
13
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:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
M A C R O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MACRO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

394
215
207
200
126
119
95
89
56
55
50
49
47
42
41
35
32
29
27
23
21
20
20
19
18
17
15
15
13
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MACRO:

17% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
STILE 6.23 bits
9.1% →
SLATE 5.72 bits
8.8% →
SEINE 5.20 bits
8.5% →
STONE 5.11 bits
5.3% →
STILE 4.82 bits
5.0% →
SOOTE 4.43 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 4.49 bits
3.8% →
CLINE 5.12 bits
2.4% →
CONTE 4.45 bits
2.3% →
STILE 3.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1C3R1O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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