5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAXED

MAXED 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

Verb

simple past and past participle of max

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 MAXED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAXED 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,391 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position MA_ED M in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST CRISE SLART SENOR SONLY DIRGE
Words starting with M Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAXED 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,391 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAXED ranks #12,391 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
667
4 guesses
1,317
5 guesses
306
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

508
323
259
171
171
143
62
60
60
44
43
43
39
37
33
31
26
24
23
23
22
20
19
13
12
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10
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAXED:

22% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
14% chance
Suggested:
CRISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
HOIST 5.85 bits
13.7% →
CRISE 5.21 bits
11.0% →
SLART 5.42 bits
7.3% →
SENOR 4.47 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.29 bits
6.1% →
SONLY 4.54 bits
2.6% →
DIRGE 4.29 bits
2.5% →
DROIT 4.58 bits
2.5% →
PRIMO 4.66 bits
1.9% →
LATER 3.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1X8E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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