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

MAFIC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmafɪk//ˈmeɪfɪk//ˈmæfɪk/

Adjective

Describing rocks, such as silicate minerals, magmas, and volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks, which contain relatively high concentrations of magnesium and iron.

Noun

A rock with such properties.

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 MAFIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAFIC 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,177 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___C M in the 1st position and C in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__C A in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MAFIC.

First-turn measures

All four describe MAFIC 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.

4.20 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAFIC 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#7,177 Rank among openers
Opening with MAFIC solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,177 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
23%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

MAFIC can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

566 answers
328 answers
274 answers
168 answers
152 answers
86 answers
64 answers
59 answers
56 answers
49 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1F4I1C3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

SOREL SLATE TRINE SLYER CRONE REAST

Strategy after playing MAFIC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAFIC:

24% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
SOREL 6.12 bits
13.8% →
SLATE 5.64 bits
11.5% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
7.1% →
SLYER 4.89 bits
6.4% →
CRONE 5.47 bits
3.6% →
REAST 4.86 bits
2.7% →
LOURE 4.85 bits
2.5% →
SOLER 4.78 bits
2.4% →
TRICE 4.23 bits
2.1% →
DROLE 4.68 bits

Research on MAFIC

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAFIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,729 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,279 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAFIHK. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MAFIC sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).