5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAGOT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory, of a grotesque form

Noun

The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.

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 MAGOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAGOT 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,547 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___T M in the 1st position and T in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SLANE CRONE TRITE SILER SLIDE
Words starting with M Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAGOT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,547 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAGOT ranks #2,547 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
16
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:
AOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

452
260
231
131
126
88
81
76
68
58
56
48
47
47
46
44
33
32
23
20
20
17
17
17
16
13
13
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAGOT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
SLIER 6.11 bits
11.0% →
SLANE 5.37 bits
9.8% →
CRONE 5.44 bits
5.6% →
TRITE 5.34 bits
5.3% →
SILER 4.81 bits
3.7% →
SLIER 5.35 bits
3.4% →
SLIDE 5.16 bits
3.2% →
SERAL 4.83 bits
2.9% →
RONTE 4.46 bits
2.5% →
TRITE 4.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1G2O1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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