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MAMAK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 73.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A roadside stall selling Muslim Tamil or Malay cuisine; by extension, a restaurant that sells similar foods.

Noun

A person who owns or works in such an establishment

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 MAMAK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAMAK 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 51.8% of games, misses completely in 48.2%, and leaves about 635 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,649 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___K M in the 1st position and K in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__K A in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MAMAK.

First-turn measures

All four describe MAMAK used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

2.95 Entropy (bits)
635 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
73.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
2.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAMAK 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.

3.99 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,649 Rank among openers
Opening with MAMAK left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.99 average. It ranks #14,649 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
526
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
473
6 guesses
44
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
29%
All gray
48%

Feedback distribution

MAMAK can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1145 answers
330 answers
231 answers
110 answers
71 answers
65 answers
55 answers
49 answers
45 answers
39 answers
32 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
15 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1M3A1K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TOILE ALERT TRINE SOREL POIRE CRUSE

Strategy after playing MAMAK

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MAMAK.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAMAK:

48% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.2% →
TOILE 5.95 bits
13.9% →
ALERT 5.38 bits
9.7% →
TRINE 4.80 bits
4.6% →
SOREL 4.75 bits
3.0% →
POIRE 5.13 bits
2.7% →
CRUSE 4.53 bits
2.3% →
STONE 4.57 bits
2.1% →
SLIER 4.51 bits
1.9% →
PRASE 4.43 bits
1.6% →
TOILE 4.25 bits

Research on MAMAK

Game-tree analysis and word research for MAMAK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with MAMAK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,655 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.14 guesses at best and is rank #7,268 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.99, at or below the proven-optimal 3.99, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAHMUHK. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MAMAK sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).