5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAIDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /meɪdz/

Noun

plural of maid

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 MAIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAIDS 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,287 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__D_ M in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONER ALERT ROUET RONTE CLOTE THALE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAIDS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,287 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAIDS ranks #4,287 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
17
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:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
30%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

422
252
213
158
155
120
106
96
60
57
50
46
45
43
41
33
30
25
25
23
18
18
17
15
15
13
13
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAIDS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TONER
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
TONER 5.93 bits
10.7% →
ALERT 5.58 bits
9.0% →
ROUET 5.43 bits
6.7% →
RONTE 5.21 bits
6.6% →
CLOTE 4.77 bits
5.1% →
THALE 4.81 bits
4.5% →
TRONE 5.01 bits
4.1% →
DRONE 5.16 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.07 bits
2.4% →
ROUTE 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1I1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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