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

MAUBY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A beverage made from the bark of certain species in the genus Colubrina or related plants and widely consumed in the Caribbean.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MAUBY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MAUBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAUBY 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 71.9% of games, misses completely in 28.1%, and leaves about 292 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,622 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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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First-turn measures

All four describe MAUBY 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.

4.12 Entropy (bits)
292 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAUBY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,622 Rank among openers
Opening with MAUBY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,622 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
775
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
34%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

MAUBY can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

669 answers
393 answers
140 answers
139 answers
134 answers
96 answers
75 answers
63 answers
53 answers
52 answers
51 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1U1B3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing MAUBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAUBY:

28% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
16% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
6% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.1% →
TRINE 6.13 bits
16.5% →
ALERT 5.58 bits
5.9% →
SOLDE 4.67 bits
5.8% →
SUITE 5.26 bits
5.6% →
RONTE 4.93 bits
4.0% →
STONE 4.61 bits
3.1% →
BLITE 5.00 bits
2.6% →
SLART 3.47 bits
2.2% →
CRISE 4.60 bits
2.2% →
TORSE 4.94 bits

Research on MAUBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAUBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,597 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,398 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).