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

MANGI

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

No dictionary definition for MANGI is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MANGI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MANGI 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 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,916 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 MANGI 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MANGI 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,916 Rank among openers
Opening with MANGI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,916 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

MANGI can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

527 answers
328 answers
274 answers
148 answers
130 answers
76 answers
61 answers
56 answers
55 answers
49 answers
47 answers
39 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1G2I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MANGI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANGI:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
14% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2%
SOREL 6.11 bits
13.8%
REAST 5.67 bits
11.5%
STILE 5.40 bits
6.2%
TORSE 4.85 bits
5.5%
TORSE 5.34 bits
3.2%
TORSE 4.53 bits
2.6%
TROPE 4.90 bits
2.4%
SLART 4.61 bits
2.3%
CRAKE 4.52 bits
2.1%
ROULE 5.01 bits

Research on MANGI

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

Optimal play

Opening with MANGI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,551 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 MANJEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MANGI 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).