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MATTE

Yes, MATTE was the Wordle answer on August 16, 2025 (Wordle #1519).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mæt/

Noun

A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

“The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).”

Noun

A background, often painted or created with computers

“Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.”

Adjective

Dull; not reflective of light.

“Flat or matte paint allows a deep color expression on the walls while also hiding flaws that may be inherent on the painted surface.”

Verb

To produce a dull, lustreless surface on (metal).

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: August 16, 2025 (#1519).

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

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How MATTE performs as a guess

MATTE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,206 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SLIER SNARL NOIRE SNORT SONLY
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MATTE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,206 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MATTE ranks #9,206 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
795
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
276
6 guesses
21
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:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
38%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U T C H
L A T T E
M A T T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MATTE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
277
211
188
132
110
83
81
80
72
55
40
38
35
35
32
29
26
26
25
21
19
17
17
14
14
12
11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MATTE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
9% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
11.7% →
SLIER 5.05 bits
8.9% →
SNARL 5.13 bits
8.0% →
NOIRE 4.44 bits
5.6% →
SNORT 5.27 bits
4.7% →
SONLY 4.55 bits
3.5% →
SLART 3.96 bits
3.4% →
SLEER 4.83 bits
3.4% →
RENAL 4.74 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1T1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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