5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MARON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An alpine guide.

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 MARON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MARON 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #674 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___N M in the 1st position and N in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE TRIED STOLE SEITY TRACE
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.09 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MARON 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#674 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MARON ranks #674 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
1,010
4 guesses
1,074
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
13
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:
ANOR

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

126 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

338
198
185
165
144
132
117
97
58
57
53
45
40
40
36
34
34
28
26
21
20
20
18
18
17
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17
17
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16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MARON:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
STILE 6.20 bits
8.4% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
7.8% →
TRIED 5.25 bits
7.0% →
STOLE 5.18 bits
6.1% →
SEITY 5.12 bits
5.6% →
TRACE 4.90 bits
5.0% →
STILE 4.82 bits
4.1% →
SCOTE 4.35 bits
2.5% →
SHULE 4.66 bits
2.4% →
BOITE 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1R1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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