5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MAIST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

most

Adverb

most

Verb

Obsolete form of mayst.

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 MAIST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAIST 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #311 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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__S_ M in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE LEARN DINER COREY PRONE CRONE
Words starting with M Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAIST 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#311 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAIST ranks #311 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
1,059
4 guesses
1,057
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
40%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

401
221
136
116
109
96
95
62
53
50
48
45
44
44
44
40
39
37
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32
28
27
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24
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18
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAIST:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
6% chance
Suggested:
DINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
DROLE 5.98 bits
9.4% →
LEARN 5.37 bits
5.8% →
DINER 5.25 bits
4.9% →
COREY 4.62 bits
4.6% →
PRONE 4.98 bits
4.1% →
CRONE 4.83 bits
4.0% →
ROUTE 5.20 bits
2.6% →
CHARE 4.27 bits
2.2% →
COURE 4.73 bits
2.1% →
ROULE 4.77 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1I1S1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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