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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

MAPLE

Yes, MAPLE was the Wordle answer on November 14, 2022 (Wordle #513).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪpl̩/[ˈmeɪp(ə)ɫ̩]/ˈmeɪp(ə)l/

Noun

A small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.

Noun

The flavour of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavour.

“What flavour is your ice-cream? Mine’s maple—it’s delicious.”

Adjective

Of the light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).

Adjective

Of the flavour of, or made with, maple syrup.

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 14, 2022 (#513).

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

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How MAPLE performs as a guess

MAPLE 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,226 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SNORT DETER TRAIN SIREN TRINE CLOUT
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.11 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAPLE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,226 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAPLE ranks #2,226 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
38%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
M A P L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MAPLE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

116 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

369
248
169
147
105
97
87
70
70
66
62
60
37
36
35
34
32
28
28
27
26
25
24
21
19
19
17
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17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAPLE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SNORT 5.97 bits
10.5% →
DETER 5.44 bits
7.2% →
TRAIN 5.25 bits
6.2% →
SIREN 4.58 bits
4.5% →
TRINE 4.25 bits
4.1% →
CLOUT 4.65 bits
3.7% →
SONAR 4.21 bits
3.0% →
REBEL 4.35 bits
3.0% →
TREAD 4.63 bits
2.8% →
SHART 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1P3L1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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