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MAKER

Yes, MAKER was the Wordle answer on November 19, 2025 (Wordle #1614).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪk.ə//ˈmeɪk.ɚ/

Noun

Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.

Noun

God, the Creator.

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: November 19, 2025 (#1614).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 19, 2025 (#1614).

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

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How MAKER performs as a guess

MAKER 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 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,337 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MAKER 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAKER 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,337 Rank among openers
Opening with MAKER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,337 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
255
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
30%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
A M B E R
M A K E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MAKER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MAKER can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

366 answers
254 answers
161 answers
155 answers
124 answers
120 answers
119 answers
97 answers
93 answers
83 answers
63 answers
57 answers
45 answers
38 answers
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25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
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18 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1K5E1R1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SONLY SEINE SNORT SLANT TOISE SLATE

Strategy after playing MAKER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAKER:

15% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
11% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
SONLY 5.57 bits
10.7% →
SEINE 5.43 bits
6.8% →
SNORT 4.95 bits
6.5% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
5.2% →
TOISE 4.59 bits
5.1% →
SLATE 5.05 bits
5.0% →
SONLY 4.54 bits
4.1% →
SOILY 3.53 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.14 bits
3.5% →
SIENT 4.45 bits

Research on MAKER

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAKER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,919 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MAKER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 MAYKUR.

Rhymes with BAKER TAKER LAKER FAKER SAKER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MAKER is a kind of creator or business.

Synonyms manufacturer

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MAKER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 17 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom is a model maker.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Are you ready to meet your maker?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).