5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MADAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A type of drum used in Nepalese folk music.

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 MADAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MADAL 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 68.3% of games, misses completely in 31.7%, and leaves about 309 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,413 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___L M in the 1st position and L in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SLICE TRACE TRICE TRINE STANE
Words starting with M Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.10 Entropy (bits)
309 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MADAL 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
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,413 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MADAL ranks #8,413 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
242
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
28%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

747
217
209
155
140
89
81
59
50
48
44
43
37
35
33
31
26
24
22
20
18
16
12
11
11
11
9
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MADAL:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.7% →
TOISE 6.17 bits
9.2% →
SLICE 5.13 bits
8.9% →
TRACE 5.58 bits
6.6% →
TRICE 4.91 bits
5.9% →
TRINE 5.37 bits
3.8% →
STANE 4.68 bits
3.4% →
ROUSE 5.15 bits
2.5% →
SENOR 4.03 bits
2.1% →
SIENT 4.30 bits
2.0% →
SEITY 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1D2A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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