MANGE
MANGE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪ̯nd͡ʒ//ˈmæɪ̯nd͡ʒ/[ˈmæ̝ɪ̯nd͡ʒ]
- Noun
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A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How MANGE performs as a guess
MANGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,287 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe MANGE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How MANGE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches MANGE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
MANGE can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for MANGE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing MANGE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MANGE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing MANGE:
Research on MANGE
Game-tree analysis and word research for MANGE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with MANGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,629 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 MANGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, MANGE is a kind of disease.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- MANGE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).
In a sentence
One sheep with mange infects the entire flock.
The stray dog had heartworms, mange, intestinal worms, and a broken leg.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).