5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MALWA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

beer made with millet, common in Africa

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 MALWA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MALWA 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 65.0% of games, misses completely in 35.0%, and leaves about 378 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,245 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE TRACE SLIER TRINE STANE POIRE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.70 Entropy (bits)
378 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MALWA 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,245 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MALWA ranks #12,245 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
317
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
23%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

825
278
236
164
148
88
87
56
54
40
35
26
25
25
21
20
20
15
15
13
13
10
9
8
7
7
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MALWA:

35% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.0% →
TRONE 6.13 bits
11.8% →
TRACE 5.64 bits
10.0% →
SLIER 5.10 bits
7.0% →
TRINE 4.93 bits
6.3% →
STANE 4.71 bits
3.7% →
POIRE 5.15 bits
3.7% →
SIREN 5.32 bits
2.4% →
TOILE 4.33 bits
2.3% →
STONE 4.50 bits
1.7% →
SURGE 3.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1L1W4A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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