5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MALTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt

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 MALTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MALTY 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,274 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

IRONE SIREN CRANE SLIER RIONE CLINE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
177 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MALTY 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
0.68 Volatility
#3,274 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MALTY ranks #3,274 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
180
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
34%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

472
236
204
185
120
117
89
72
54
43
42
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33
26
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MALTY:

20% chance
Suggested:
IRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
9% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
IRONE 6.04 bits
10.0% →
SIREN 5.58 bits
8.7% →
CRANE 5.46 bits
7.8% →
SLIER 5.07 bits
5.1% →
RIONE 4.76 bits
5.0% →
CLINE 4.67 bits
3.8% →
SNARE 4.88 bits
3.1% →
CORSE 4.80 bits
2.3% →
POIRE 4.98 bits
1.8% →
SCORE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1L1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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