5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MBUGA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A heavy dark clay soil found in parts of Africa.

Noun

A seasonal swamp in East 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 MBUGA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MBUGA 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 69.8% of games, misses completely in 30.2%, and leaves about 361 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,986 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___A M in the 1st position and A in the 5th position M__G_ M in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _B__A B in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SIREN TARSE SLIER DROLE STONE TRONE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.82 Entropy (bits)
361 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MBUGA 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
0.71 Volatility
#10,986 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MBUGA ranks #10,986 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
14
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:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
17%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

711
527
147
85
84
82
71
67
60
52
41
34
32
31
26
24
22
22
21
13
12
12
11
10
10
9
8
8
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MBUGA:

30% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
22% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
6% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.2% →
SIREN 5.96 bits
22.3% →
TARSE 5.56 bits
6.2% →
SLIER 5.13 bits
3.6% →
DROLE 5.00 bits
3.6% →
STONE 4.70 bits
3.5% →
TRONE 5.17 bits
3.0% →
BLORE 4.64 bits
2.8% →
ALANE 4.67 bits
2.5% →
TOILE 5.05 bits
2.2% →
CRISE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3B3U1G2A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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