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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

MASON

Yes, MASON was the Wordle answer on October 28, 2023 (Wordle #861).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪsən/

Noun

A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick.

Noun

One who prepares stone for building purposes.

Verb

To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

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: October 28, 2023 (#861).

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

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How MASON performs as a guess

MASON is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,616 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___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

TRIED TRACE TRODE STILE TRICE THALE
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.89 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MASON 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,616 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MASON ranks #1,616 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
948
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
M A S O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MASON in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

397
229
200
159
140
134
110
80
61
54
52
51
41
37
35
30
26
25
22
21
21
20
19
19
19
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17
17
16
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MASON:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
10% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRODE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
TRIED 6.05 bits
9.7% →
TRACE 5.59 bits
8.5% →
TRODE 5.15 bits
6.7% →
STILE 5.37 bits
5.9% →
TRICE 5.21 bits
5.7% →
TRICE 4.65 bits
4.7% →
THALE 4.78 bits
3.4% →
STORE 4.69 bits
2.6% →
DRICE 4.57 bits
2.3% →
BLOAT 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1S1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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