Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

MATHE

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

No dictionary definition for MATHE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check MATHE on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 MATHE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MATHE 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 127 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,047 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MATHE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.08 Entropy (bits)
127 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MATHE 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,047 Rank among openers
Opening with MATHE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,047 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
894
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
36%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

MATHE can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

331 answers
241 answers
174 answers
168 answers
133 answers
99 answers
79 answers
78 answers
74 answers
72 answers
66 answers
47 answers
42 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1T1H4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MATHE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MATHE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MATHE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9%
SOILY 5.71 bits
10.2%
OLDER 4.92 bits
7.3%
SLAIN 5.05 bits
7.1%
SENOR 4.57 bits
5.6%
SNORT 5.34 bits
4.2%
SONLY 4.65 bits
3.3%
SLEER 4.84 bits
3.3%
CHOIR 4.73 bits
3.1%
SLART 4.66 bits
3.0%
SLART 3.94 bits

Research on MATHE

Game-tree analysis and word research for MATHE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with MATHE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,443 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MATHE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it MAYTH.

Rhymes with BATHE LATHE RATHE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MATHE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).