Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

MAMEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of mamey.

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 MAMEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAMEE 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 73.8% of games, misses completely in 26.2%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,953 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MAMEE 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.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAMEE 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,953 Rank among openers
Opening with MAMEE left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #13,953 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
579
4 guesses
1,333
5 guesses
367
6 guesses
27
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
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
44%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MAMEE can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

623 answers
309 answers
178 answers
172 answers
159 answers
152 answers
111 answers
94 answers
71 answers
53 answers
43 answers
43 answers
42 answers
38 answers
36 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1M3E1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MAMEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAMEE:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.2%
SOILY 5.61 bits
13.0%
SLART 5.37 bits
7.5%
NOIRE 4.39 bits
7.2%
SONLY 4.45 bits
6.7%
INERT 4.79 bits
6.4%
OLDER 4.13 bits
4.7%
SLART 4.78 bits
4.0%
SLART 4.34 bits
3.0%
STEER 4.09 bits
2.2%
SENOR 4.00 bits

Research on MAMEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAMEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,240 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MAMEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90; proven optimal play reaches 3.87. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 MAMEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.