5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MAQUI

MAQUI is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina.

Noun

The edible berry of this shrub.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 MAQUI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAQUI as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 299 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,182 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___I M in the 1st position and I in the 5th position M__U_ M in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL REAST TRINE NURSE TORSE TRIAL
Words starting with M Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.67 Entropy (bits)
299 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAQUI 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,182 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAQUI ranks #14,182 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
631
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
432
6 guesses
32
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
20%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

518
410
402
217
198
81
49
47
43
37
37
34
29
27
25
23
22
19
16
10
10
10
9
9
9
8
7
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAQUI:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
17% chance
Suggested:
REAST
17% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0% →
SOREL 5.83 bits
17.4% →
REAST 5.56 bits
17.0% →
TRINE 5.37 bits
9.2% →
NURSE 4.97 bits
8.4% →
TORSE 4.81 bits
3.4% →
TRIAL 4.58 bits
2.1% →
PRASE 4.50 bits
2.0% →
STORE 4.59 bits
1.8% →
TORSE 4.67 bits
1.6% →
GUILT 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1Q10U1I1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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