5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

MUDDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 74.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmʌdi/

Adjective

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

“He slogged across the muddy field.”

Adjective

Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

“The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.”

Verb

To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.

“If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside.”

Verb

To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.

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 MUDDY performs as a guess

MUDDY 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 52.0% of games, misses completely in 48.0%, and leaves about 601 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,057 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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__D_ M in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SORAL STONE ARIEL SOARE LATER
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.18 Entropy (bits)
601 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
74.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUDDY 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,057 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUDDY ranks #14,057 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
624
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
419
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
28%
All gray
48%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C A D G E
M U D D Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MUDDY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1133
206
190
147
114
91
60
40
35
34
29
26
24
23
23
16
15
14
12
9
9
8
7
7
7
6
5
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUDDY:

48% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
8% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.0% →
TIARE 6.20 bits
8.7% →
SORAL 4.83 bits
8.1% →
STONE 5.27 bits
6.2% →
ARIEL 5.62 bits
4.8% →
SOARE 5.39 bits
3.9% →
LATER 4.77 bits
2.5% →
NOIRE 4.89 bits
1.7% →
SLART 3.29 bits
1.5% →
RAILE 4.65 bits
1.4% →
PALER 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1D2D2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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