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

MAUMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːmi/

Adjective

Mellow, soft, insipid

Adjective

Mild, humid

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 MAUMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAUMY 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 68.6% of games, misses completely in 31.4%, and leaves about 364 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,835 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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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First-turn measures

All four describe MAUMY 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.

3.67 Entropy (bits)
364 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAUMY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,835 Rank among openers
Opening with MAUMY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,835 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
628
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
26
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
35%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

MAUMY can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

746 answers
446 answers
163 answers
163 answers
157 answers
110 answers
69 answers
49 answers
44 answers
42 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1U1M3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing MAUMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAUMY:

31% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
19% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
SUITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.4%
TRINE 6.14 bits
18.8%
ALERT 5.53 bits
6.9%
SUITE 5.25 bits
6.9%
RONTE 4.92 bits
6.6%
SOLDE 4.65 bits
4.6%
STONE 4.59 bits
2.9%
SLART 3.39 bits
2.1%
SLART 3.16 bits
1.9%
TOILE 4.85 bits
1.8%
SLART 4.24 bits

Research on MAUMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MAUMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,666 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,714 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAWMEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.