5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MSASA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A tree of Southern Africa, Brachystegia spiciformis.

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 MSASA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MSASA 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 62.4% of games, misses completely in 37.6%, and leaves about 442 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,880 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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__S_ M in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _S__A S in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE TALER ROUET TRICE ROULE RUOTE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.41 Entropy (bits)
442 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MSASA 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,880 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MSASA ranks #13,880 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
616
4 guesses
1,291
5 guesses
369
6 guesses
36
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
26%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

887
366
258
153
93
74
67
60
51
32
29
27
27
23
23
20
17
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13
10
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6
5
5
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4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MSASA:

38% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
16% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.6% →
RIONE 5.95 bits
15.5% →
TALER 5.52 bits
10.9% →
ROUET 5.27 bits
6.5% →
TRICE 5.09 bits
3.9% →
ROULE 5.01 bits
3.1% →
RUOTE 5.09 bits
2.8% →
CLOTE 3.92 bits
2.5% →
TALER 4.55 bits
2.2% →
ROUTE 4.60 bits
1.4% →
NOIRE 4.08 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3S1A1S1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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