5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

MAMMY

MAMMY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 75.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

mamma; mother

Noun

In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.

Alternative forms: mamie, mammie

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 MAMMY performs as a guess

MAMMY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 57.1% of games, misses completely in 42.9%, and leaves about 574 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,717 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.02 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

TRINE ALERT TOILE CLOTE SLART RIONE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

2.91 Entropy (bits)
574 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
75.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAMMY 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.

4.02 Avg guesses
99.7% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,717 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAMMY ranks #14,717 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
497
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
511
6 guesses
42
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
32%
All gray
43%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
D U C H Y
D O G M A
M A M M Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MAMMY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

46 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1012
486
208
184
71
43
42
35
35
30
29
29
23
19
16
10
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
3
3
3
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAMMY:

43% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
21% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.9% →
TRINE 6.12 bits
20.6% →
ALERT 5.51 bits
8.8% →
TOILE 4.50 bits
7.8% →
CLOTE 4.76 bits
3.0% →
SLART 3.38 bits
1.8% →
SLART 4.25 bits
1.8% →
RIONE 4.76 bits
1.5% →
STORE 4.63 bits
1.5% →
REALM 4.40 bits
1.3% →
PRICE 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1M3M3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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