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MANOR

Yes, MANOR was the Wordle answer on May 31, 2022 (Wordle #346).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmænə(ɹ)//ˈmænəɹ/

Noun

A landed estate.

Noun

The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.

Alternative forms: manour

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

Etymology

English surname, variant of Mayner, of Norman origin, from a Proto-Germanic personal name composed of the elements *maginą (“power, might”) + *harjaz (“army”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

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

In a sentence

The manor isn't a place to party.
© tatoeba.org contributor megamanenm (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Karl returned to the manor.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use MANOR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with MANOR Open Word Finder

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: May 31, 2022 (#346).

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How MANOR performs as a guess

MANOR 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #469 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position MA_OR M in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MANOR 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MANOR 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#469 Rank among openers
Opening with MANOR left 2 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 3.58 average. It ranks #469 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
1,002
4 guesses
1,093
5 guesses
165
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A G O N Y
M A N O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MANOR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MANOR can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

342 answers
199 answers
186 answers
168 answers
125 answers
117 answers
112 answers
90 answers
63 answers
60 answers
54 answers
51 answers
46 answers
41 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
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28 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
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19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1N1O1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE STOLE TRACE SCOTE SLICE

Strategy after playing MANOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MANOR:

14% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
STILE 6.20 bits
8.3% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
7.8% →
STILE 5.28 bits
7.0% →
STOLE 5.20 bits
5.2% →
TRACE 4.99 bits
4.9% →
STILE 4.82 bits
4.7% →
STILE 5.13 bits
3.8% →
SCOTE 4.61 bits
2.6% →
SLICE 4.77 bits
2.5% →
SIDLE 3.52 bits

Research on MANOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with MANOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,664 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 MANOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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
MANOR sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).