5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MAWKY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: [mɔːki]

Adjective

Maggoty, full of maggots.

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 MAWKY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAWKY 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 65.6% of games, misses completely in 34.4%, and leaves about 385 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,186 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__K_ M in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE ALERT TOILE CLOTE SIREN LOURE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
385 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAWKY 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#13,186 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAWKY ranks #13,186 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
646
4 guesses
1,331
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
15
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:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
30%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

812
392
167
165
92
90
80
64
58
46
44
38
30
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26
19
15
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAWKY:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
17% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.4% →
TOISE 6.08 bits
16.6% →
ALERT 5.60 bits
7.1% →
TOILE 4.60 bits
7.0% →
CLOTE 4.76 bits
3.9% →
SIREN 5.35 bits
3.8% →
LOURE 5.06 bits
3.4% →
CRINE 4.86 bits
2.7% →
SLART 3.44 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.55 bits
2.0% →
SLANT 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1W4K5Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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