5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MUFTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmʌfti//ˈmʊfti/

Noun

A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

Noun

A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

Alternative forms: muftee, mufty

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 MUFTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUFTI 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 316 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,812 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___I M in the 1st position and I in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__I U in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE RANSE SOARE CORSE SHART SCALE
Words starting with M Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.98 Entropy (bits)
316 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUFTI 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,812 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUFTI ranks #9,812 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
767
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
261
6 guesses
15
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:
ITU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
18%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

724
315
242
120
118
83
82
62
61
61
52
37
34
23
20
19
18
18
17
15
15
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14
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9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUFTI:

31% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
RANSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
CARLE 6.14 bits
13.4% →
RANSE 5.37 bits
10.3% →
SOARE 5.63 bits
5.1% →
CORSE 5.19 bits
5.0% →
SHART 4.55 bits
3.5% →
SCALE 4.54 bits
3.5% →
SOARE 5.11 bits
2.6% →
PRASE 4.75 bits
2.6% →
SOARE 4.97 bits
2.6% →
SNORE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1F4T1I1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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