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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MBUBE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A style of a cappella choral music originating among the Zulus of South Africa.

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 MBUBE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MBUBE 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 372 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,731 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__B_ M in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _B__E B in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER ROAST SLART SLANT SONAR
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.57 Entropy (bits)
372 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MBUBE 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,731 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MBUBE ranks #13,731 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
623
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
361
6 guesses
26
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:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
29%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

733
463
266
135
95
83
73
52
52
47
38
31
28
25
25
23
22
21
15
11
9
9
8
8
7
6
6
6
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MBUBE:

31% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
20% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
11% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.1% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
19.6% →
ALTER 5.23 bits
11.3% →
ROAST 5.11 bits
5.7% →
SLART 4.77 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.77 bits
3.5% →
SONAR 5.00 bits
3.1% →
SOAPY 4.74 bits
2.2% →
BLAER 4.42 bits
2.2% →
RAINY 4.41 bits
2.0% →
GUISE 3.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3B3U1B3E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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