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MANGO

Yes, MANGO was the Wordle answer on March 12, 2025 (Wordle #1362).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ//ˈmaŋɡəw//ˈmæŋɡoʊ/

Noun

Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees.

Noun

Fruit of the mango tree.

Verb

To stuff and pickle (a fruit).

Alternative forms: manga

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MANGGOH.

Rhymes with TANGO

In a sentence

Which one is your mango?
© tatoeba.org contributor Analu_Kalaka (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I want to eat mango.
© tatoeba.org contributor francaisr0wlet (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use MANGO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 12, 2025 (#1362).

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MANGO in Connections

2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How MANGO performs as a guess

MANGO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.4% of games, misses completely in 21.6%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,284 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___O M in the 1st position and O in the 5th position M__G_ M in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position MA_GO M in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, G in the 4th position, and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MANGO.

First-turn measures

All four describe MANGO 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MANGO 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,284 Rank among openers
Opening with MANGO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,284 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
874
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
24%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
B A N J O
M A N G O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MANGO in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MANGO can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

516 answers
312 answers
275 answers
155 answers
118 answers
86 answers
73 answers
66 answers
64 answers
49 answers
49 answers
48 answers
32 answers
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31 answers
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27 answers
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12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1G2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLIER REAST TORSE SPITE INTER SOWER

Strategy after playing MANGO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANGO:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
13% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.6% →
SLIER 6.13 bits
13.1% →
REAST 5.67 bits
11.5% →
TORSE 5.40 bits
6.5% →
SPITE 4.86 bits
4.9% →
INTER 5.23 bits
3.6% →
SOWER 4.36 bits
3.1% →
BLOAT 4.48 bits
2.8% →
PLIER 5.02 bits
2.7% →
SLICE 4.59 bits
2.1% →
STIRE 4.79 bits

Research on MANGO

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

Optimal play

Opening with MANGO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #5,921 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,002 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MANGO sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.7 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).