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MAYOR

Yes, MAYOR was the Wordle answer on March 26, 2024 (Wordle #1011).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɛə̯//ˈmeɪ̯.ɚ//ˈmɛɚ/

Noun

The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.

Noun

A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.

Alternative forms: maiere, maieur, mar, mayere

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 26, 2024 (#1011).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 26, 2024 (#1011).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How MAYOR performs as a guess

MAYOR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,706 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MAYOR.

First-turn measures

All four describe MAYOR used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MAYOR 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,706 Rank among openers
Opening with MAYOR left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,706 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
915
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
A G O N Y
M A Y O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MAYOR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MAYOR can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

384 answers
244 answers
184 answers
182 answers
132 answers
114 answers
107 answers
102 answers
68 answers
53 answers
53 answers
48 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1Y4O1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE SONCE SPITE TRICE SIDLE

Strategy after playing MAYOR

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MAYOR.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAYOR:

16% chance
Suggested:
STILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SONCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
STILE 6.13 bits
10.3% →
SLATE 5.70 bits
7.8% →
SONCE 5.38 bits
7.7% →
SPITE 5.50 bits
5.6% →
TRICE 4.73 bits
4.8% →
SIDLE 4.78 bits
4.5% →
STILE 4.83 bits
4.3% →
STONE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
SIDLE 3.61 bits
2.2% →
SWOLE 3.71 bits

Research on MAYOR

Game-tree analysis and word research for MAYOR, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with MAYOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,808 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MAYOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAYUR.

Rhymes with LAYER BAYER PAYER SAYER GEYER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MAYOR is a kind of politician.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MAYOR sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 42 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

He used to be the mayor.
© tatoeba.org contributor ldegraaf (CC BY 2.0 FR)
My father is a mayor.
© tatoeba.org contributor Fenrir (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).