5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MAUKA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adverb

inland, towards the mountains.

Noun

The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.

Noun

One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

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 MAUKA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAUKA 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 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 405 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,323 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position M__K_ M in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLATE TORSE STIRE TRONE CRISE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
405 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAUKA 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,323 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAUKA ranks #13,323 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
658
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
370
6 guesses
22
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
3 vowels
Common:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
26%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

837
375
207
203
96
73
65
48
47
43
27
27
26
23
22
19
19
18
15
13
13
11
8
8
8
8
8
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAUKA:

35% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
TOILE 5.91 bits
15.9% →
SLATE 5.56 bits
8.8% →
TORSE 4.84 bits
8.6% →
STIRE 5.08 bits
4.1% →
TRONE 4.81 bits
3.1% →
TOILE 5.20 bits
2.8% →
CRISE 5.00 bits
2.0% →
PRISE 4.54 bits
2.0% →
SLANT 4.35 bits
1.8% →
TRONE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1U1K5A1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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