5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MELAM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A condensation product of melamine, originally found in the residue of heating ammonium thiocyanate.

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 MELAM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MELAM 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,436 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___M M in the 1st position and M in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__M E in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

SNORT SIREE TRAIN TARSE CLOUT TERSE
Words starting with M Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MELAM 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
0.74 Volatility
#11,436 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MELAM ranks #11,436 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
28
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:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
25%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

441
368
284
151
143
113
105
89
55
39
38
36
34
33
29
27
26
25
21
19
18
14
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12
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12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MELAM:

19% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
16% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SNORT 5.96 bits
15.6% →
SIREE 5.38 bits
12.0% →
TRAIN 5.30 bits
6.4% →
TARSE 4.73 bits
6.1% →
CLOUT 4.65 bits
4.8% →
TERSE 4.55 bits
4.5% →
SLEET 4.51 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.21 bits
2.3% →
STAGE 3.62 bits
1.7% →
TONER 3.80 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1L1A1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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