5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MAZUT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A grade of heavy fuel oil used in industry and also sometimes used in lieu of home heating oil.

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 MAZUT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MAZUT 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 275 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,366 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___T M in the 1st position and T in the 5th position M__U_ M in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER LEARN SUCRE SHORE SIREN SERAL
Words starting with M Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.04 Entropy (bits)
275 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MAZUT 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,366 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MAZUT ranks #10,366 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
276
6 guesses
21
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:
ATU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
29%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

640
333
185
163
158
103
87
63
61
60
54
53
37
31
31
31
24
23
16
13
13
12
11
9
9
9
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MAZUT:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
8% chance
Suggested:
SUCRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
SLIER 5.99 bits
14.1% →
LEARN 5.40 bits
7.8% →
SUCRE 4.97 bits
6.9% →
SHORE 5.48 bits
6.7% →
SIREN 4.78 bits
4.4% →
SLIER 5.22 bits
3.7% →
SERAL 4.80 bits
2.7% →
SCARE 4.47 bits
2.6% →
TRITE 4.05 bits
2.5% →
POIRE 4.99 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3A1Z10U1T1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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