5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

MANGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/

Adjective

Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.

Adjective

Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

“We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.”

Alternative forms: mangey

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 MANGY performs as a guess

MANGY 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 265 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,982 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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__G_ M in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SLATE TOISE SILER STILE ROUSE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
265 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MANGY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,982 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MANGY ranks #5,982 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
33%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

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

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

640
342
174
144
119
79
69
64
50
49
49
37
36
33
33
30
29
26
24
18
17
15
15
13
13
12
11
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANGY:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
SLIER 6.10 bits
14.5% →
SLATE 5.65 bits
7.4% →
TOISE 5.44 bits
6.1% →
SILER 4.57 bits
5.0% →
STILE 4.82 bits
3.4% →
ROUSE 5.13 bits
2.9% →
CRISE 4.49 bits
2.7% →
RUOTE 5.10 bits
2.1% →
PRASE 4.69 bits
2.1% →
PRICE 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1G2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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