5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MARAY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of moray (“type of eel”).

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 MARAY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MARAY 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 254 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,789 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TOISE SLATE SIDLE TRACE TUILE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
254 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MARAY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,789 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MARAY ranks #9,789 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
37%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

600
336
215
158
124
106
76
64
63
54
42
39
35
30
27
27
23
20
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12
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MARAY:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
TOILE 6.12 bits
14.2% →
TOISE 5.40 bits
9.1% →
SLATE 5.56 bits
6.7% →
SIDLE 4.61 bits
5.3% →
TRACE 4.52 bits
4.5% →
TUILE 4.73 bits
3.2% →
TOUSE 5.06 bits
2.7% →
TOILE 5.33 bits
2.7% →
CLEAT 4.63 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 3.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1R1A1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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