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MAGMA

Yes, MAGMA was the Wordle answer on August 19, 2023 (Wordle #791).

As an opener, it rules out about 74.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.mə/

Noun

A mixture of molten silicate rock, crystals, and gas within the earth, which may be erupted as lava or cool in place to form igneous intrusions.

Noun

A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 19, 2023 (#791).

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

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How MAGMA performs as a guess

MAGMA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 54.7% of games, misses completely in 45.3%, and leaves about 597 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,484 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position M__M_ M in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MAGMA 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.

3.00 Entropy (bits)
597 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
74.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAGMA 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,484 Rank among openers
Opening with MAGMA left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.95 average. It ranks #14,484 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
555
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
459
6 guesses
31
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
23%
All gray
45%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
G A M M A
M A G M A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MAGMA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MAGMA can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1076 answers
417 answers
213 answers
149 answers
73 answers
54 answers
43 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
29 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1G2M3A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TOILE SLATE TRINE RIONE ROULE SLIER

Strategy after playing MAGMA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAGMA:

45% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
18% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.3% →
TOILE 5.93 bits
17.6% →
SLATE 5.57 bits
9.0% →
TRINE 4.83 bits
6.3% →
RIONE 5.39 bits
3.1% →
ROULE 4.81 bits
2.3% →
RIONE 4.58 bits
1.8% →
TRINE 4.31 bits
1.5% →
SLIER 4.33 bits
1.4% →
TOILE 4.16 bits
1.4% →
PRISE 4.43 bits

Research on MAGMA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAGMA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.98 guesses and ranks #14,601 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.12 guesses at best and is rank #7,202 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95, at or below the proven-optimal 3.98, 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 MAGMUH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MAGMA is a kind of rock.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MAGMA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

In a sentence

Magma from the mantle or lower crust rises through its crust towards the surface.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).