5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MANDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mand

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mand

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 MANDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MANDS 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,149 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__D_ M in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET ALERT GOIER CLOTE DROLE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MANDS 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
0.66 Volatility
#3,149 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MANDS ranks #3,149 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
939
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

477
244
232
147
129
126
108
73
67
63
62
53
44
34
34
31
31
30
22
22
22
21
19
17
14
14
14
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANDS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
10% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
10.3% →
ROUET 5.49 bits
9.8% →
ALERT 5.54 bits
6.2% →
GOIER 5.47 bits
5.5% →
CLOTE 4.70 bits
5.3% →
DROLE 5.36 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.95 bits
3.1% →
ROULE 4.92 bits
2.8% →
GRICE 4.83 bits
2.7% →
ROUET 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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