5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MBIRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument.

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 MBIRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MBIRA 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,693 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position M__R_ M in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _B__A B in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

STOLE SLATE TOUSE SIENT CASTE RINSE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MBIRA 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,693 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MBIRA ranks #5,693 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
7
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:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
24%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

391
354
249
162
157
131
63
63
50
47
45
43
43
42
33
32
30
24
23
23
23
21
20
17
14
14
14
13
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MBIRA:

17% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOUSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
STOLE 6.00 bits
15.0% →
SLATE 5.75 bits
10.6% →
TOUSE 5.37 bits
6.9% →
SIENT 4.84 bits
6.7% →
CASTE 4.82 bits
5.6% →
STOLE 4.92 bits
2.7% →
RINSE 4.33 bits
2.7% →
CLONE 4.82 bits
2.1% →
CONTE 4.48 bits
2.0% →
POLEY 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3B3I1R1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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