5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAYAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪən//ˈmɑːjən//ˈmɛːjən/

Adjective

Of or relating to the Maya people of Central America and southeastern Mexico.

Noun

A Maya person.

Proper noun

The language of the Maya people.

Proper noun

An age from 502 to 501 ± 2.0 million years ago, a subdivision of the Cambrian.

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 MAYAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAYAN 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 68.9% of games, misses completely in 31.1%, and leaves about 312 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,035 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___N M in the 1st position and N in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SLART SOLDE STILE CRUET ROUSE
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
312 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAYAN 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,035 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAYAN ranks #11,035 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
742
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
27%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

734
262
219
171
120
89
85
62
59
57
51
42
33
27
23
22
21
18
17
17
15
15
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11
10
10
9
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAYAN:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.1% →
TOISE 6.06 bits
11.1% →
SLART 5.45 bits
9.3% →
TOISE 5.49 bits
7.3% →
SOLDE 4.66 bits
5.1% →
STILE 4.73 bits
3.8% →
CRUET 4.70 bits
3.6% →
ROUSE 5.10 bits
2.6% →
SLATE 4.39 bits
2.5% →
SOWER 4.61 bits
2.4% →
SLART 3.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1Y4A1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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