5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MALMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling or characteristic of malm.

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 MALMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MALMY 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 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 336 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,885 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__M_ M in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE STARE SLIER SLATE SIRED TRICE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.85 Entropy (bits)
336 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MALMY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,885 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MALMY ranks #11,885 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
715
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
20
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
1 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
33%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

750
312
226
159
155
124
58
52
42
36
35
32
31
31
22
22
21
18
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15
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11
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8
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MALMY:

32% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
TRONE 6.23 bits
13.2% →
STARE 5.61 bits
9.6% →
SLIER 5.05 bits
6.7% →
SLATE 4.61 bits
6.6% →
SIRED 4.66 bits
5.3% →
TRICE 4.94 bits
2.5% →
TRINE 3.34 bits
2.2% →
ROUSE 4.89 bits
1.8% →
TONER 3.85 bits
1.5% →
BIOSE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1L1M3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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