5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MAWKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mawk

Noun

hands

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 MAWKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAWKS 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 324 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,579 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__K_ M in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MA_KS M in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, K in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET RONTE STALE ROULE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.82 Entropy (bits)
324 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAWKS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#10,579 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAWKS ranks #10,579 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,328
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
10
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
21%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

720
319
263
180
110
91
74
55
52
47
45
32
31
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25
23
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAWKS:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
13.5% →
ALERT 5.62 bits
11.2% →
ROUET 5.57 bits
7.6% →
RONTE 4.84 bits
4.7% →
STALE 4.91 bits
3.9% →
ROULE 5.02 bits
3.1% →
DRONE 5.12 bits
2.3% →
SPILE 4.09 bits
2.2% →
CRINE 4.70 bits
2.0% →
RONTE 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1W4K5S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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