5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MALEO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Macrocephalon maleo, a species of turkey-like bird in the megapode family, endemic to Sulawesi.

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 MALEO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MALEO 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 90.8% of games, misses completely in 9.2%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,321 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___O M in the 1st position and O in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TRINE SHUNT SNORT SCANT SHART SIDER
Words starting with M Words ending with O

First-turn measures

5.22 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MALEO 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,321 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MALEO ranks #3,321 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
12
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
3 vowels
Common:
AELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
32%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

221
218
203
139
136
126
105
89
85
75
61
56
53
48
42
38
30
29
28
27
26
23
20
20
20
19
19
18
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MALEO:

9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SHUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.4% →
TRINE 5.49 bits
9.2% →
SHUNT 5.77 bits
8.6% →
SNORT 5.23 bits
5.9% →
SCANT 5.14 bits
5.8% →
SHART 5.02 bits
5.3% →
SIDER 4.60 bits
4.5% →
NASTY 4.14 bits
3.8% →
SLICK 4.49 bits
3.6% →
SNORE 4.40 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1L1E1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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