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

MAJAT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Cannabis of low quality with too many sticks and seeds.

Noun

Any other product or service that is of inferior quality.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MAJAT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MAJAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAJAT 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 63.3% of games, misses completely in 36.7%, and leaves about 405 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,623 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MAJAT 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.

3.57 Entropy (bits)
405 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAJAT 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,623 Rank among openers
Opening with MAJAT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,623 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
652
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
378
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
31%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

MAJAT can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

874 answers
264 answers
227 answers
158 answers
146 answers
92 answers
87 answers
65 answers
62 answers
51 answers
48 answers
46 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1J8A1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing MAJAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAJAT:

37% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
SNARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SHIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.7% →
RIONE 5.98 bits
11.1% →
SNARE 5.25 bits
9.5% →
SHIRE 5.43 bits
6.6% →
SLYER 4.89 bits
6.1% →
SIREN 5.38 bits
3.9% →
ROULE 5.03 bits
3.6% →
SENOR 4.75 bits
2.7% →
SLATE 4.59 bits
2.6% →
TRITE 4.09 bits
2.1% →
SENOR 4.28 bits

Research on MAJAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAJAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,777 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,434 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).