5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MALAI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /məˈlaɪ/

Noun

An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.

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 MALAI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MALAI 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,048 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___I M in the 1st position and I in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TRINE STARE SOBER CONTE CRINE
Words starting with M Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
249 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MALAI 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,048 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MALAI ranks #10,048 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
790
4 guesses
1,203
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

580
339
218
176
144
90
90
62
57
41
39
36
35
34
32
28
27
26
22
20
20
20
17
15
12
10
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MALAI:

25% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
STARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
TORSE 6.27 bits
14.4% →
TRINE 5.53 bits
9.2% →
STARE 5.46 bits
7.5% →
SOBER 4.97 bits
6.1% →
CONTE 4.84 bits
3.8% →
CRINE 4.16 bits
3.8% →
STANE 4.58 bits
2.6% →
ROUTE 4.95 bits
2.4% →
TREAD 4.35 bits
1.7% →
CRUET 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1L1A1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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