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MANIA

Yes, MANIA was the Wordle answer on November 4, 2023 (Wordle #868).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/

Noun

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

Noun

Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 4, 2023 (#868).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How MANIA performs as a guess

MANIA 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 74.5% of games, misses completely in 25.5%, and leaves about 259 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,447 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MANIA 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.

4.23 Entropy (bits)
259 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MANIA 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,447 Rank among openers
Opening with MANIA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,447 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
265
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
28%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
M A N G A
M A N I A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MANIA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MANIA can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

606 answers
319 answers
256 answers
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94 answers
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9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOREL REAST STIRE TORSE SOGER SLAKE

Strategy after playing MANIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANIA:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
13% chance
Suggested:
REAST
11% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.5% →
SOREL 6.10 bits
13.4% →
REAST 5.63 bits
10.8% →
STIRE 5.30 bits
6.5% →
TORSE 4.78 bits
6.1% →
TORSE 5.31 bits
4.0% →
SOGER 4.49 bits
3.1% →
SLAKE 4.49 bits
2.8% →
LOURE 4.78 bits
2.6% →
LOURE 4.67 bits
1.9% →
COURE 4.21 bits

Research on MANIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MANIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #9,994 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,782 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAYNEEUH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MANIA is a kind of need or disturbance.

Synonyms passion

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MANIA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

I don't understand all the soccer mania.
© tatoeba.org contributor kebukebu (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He could not shake off the persecution mania.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).