5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAWNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mawn

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 MAWNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAWNS 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 75.9% of games, misses completely in 24.1%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,266 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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__N_ M in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET LINER PORTE STALE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAWNS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#6,266 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAWNS ranks #6,266 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
864
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
12
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:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

568
271
234
144
139
108
80
78
54
50
45
39
38
38
37
34
29
25
25
24
23
22
19
16
16
16
14
11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAWNS:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.1% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
11.5% →
ALERT 5.57 bits
9.9% →
ROUET 5.53 bits
6.1% →
LINER 5.06 bits
5.9% →
PORTE 4.74 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.85 bits
3.4% →
ROULE 4.93 bits
3.3% →
GOIER 4.67 bits
2.3% →
ARIEL 4.47 bits
2.1% →
TRODE 5.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1W4N1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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