5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MARVY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with MARVY Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Great, awesome, brilliant.

Alternative forms: marvie

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 MARVY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MARVY 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,453 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__V_ M in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

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

First-turn measures

4.28 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MARVY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,453 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MARVY ranks #8,453 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
849
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
33%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

561
311
274
163
156
105
68
62
52
44
38
31
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MARVY:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
13.2% →
TOISE 5.42 bits
11.6% →
SLATE 5.73 bits
6.9% →
TRACE 4.80 bits
6.6% →
SIDLE 4.62 bits
4.5% →
CLOTE 4.75 bits
2.9% →
TOUSE 5.03 bits
2.6% →
TOILE 5.30 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 3.62 bits
1.9% →
SLIME 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1R1V4Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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