5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

MECCA

MECCA is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of Mecca.

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

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 MECCA performs as a guess

MECCA 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,315 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__C_ M in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__A E in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SNORT SIREE TRAIL SLART RESET COUNT
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.10 Entropy (bits)
251 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MECCA 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,315 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MECCA ranks #11,315 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
740
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
302
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
S E P I A
M E C C A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MECCA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

478
401
344
208
125
63
59
56
51
50
49
34
33
32
30
26
24
22
21
18
13
12
12
11
11
11
10
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MECCA:

20% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
17% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
SNORT 5.88 bits
17.0% →
SIREE 5.35 bits
14.6% →
TRAIL 5.29 bits
8.8% →
SLART 4.90 bits
5.3% →
RESET 4.51 bits
2.7% →
COUNT 4.82 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.54 bits
2.4% →
PRIMO 4.57 bits
2.2% →
SOREE 4.66 bits
2.1% →
SLART 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1C3C3A1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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