5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

MEALY

Yes, MEALY was the Wordle answer on March 17, 2023 (Wordle #636).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmiːli/

Adjective

Resembling meal (the foodstuff).

“Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.”

Adjective

Of the pale yellow color of a canary.

Noun

A canary of a pale yellow color.

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 17, 2023 (#636).

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

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How MEALY performs as a guess

MEALY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,324 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SIREE SNORT TAPIR TARSE SIRED SHART
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

5.03 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MEALY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#6,324 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MEALY ranks #6,324 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
864
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
22
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:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
42%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
M E A L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MEALY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

116 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

343
319
135
113
111
100
96
88
84
77
68
56
46
42
40
33
28
28
25
24
23
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MEALY:

15% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
14% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
6% chance
Suggested:
TAPIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SIREE 5.38 bits
13.5% →
SNORT 6.05 bits
5.7% →
TAPIR 5.21 bits
4.8% →
TARSE 4.78 bits
4.7% →
SIRED 3.89 bits
4.2% →
SHART 4.74 bits
4.1% →
CLOUT 4.63 bits
3.7% →
SIREN 4.64 bits
3.6% →
SIREE 4.33 bits
3.3% →
TONAL 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1A1L1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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