5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MUSTA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Contraction of must + have.

“He musta guessed. There's no other explanation.”

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 MUSTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUSTA 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,476 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARNE PROLE THEIR CARLE SHALE
Words starting with M Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.64 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUSTA 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#4,476 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUSTA ranks #4,476 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
918
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
19
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:
ASTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
21%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

478
357
156
139
123
102
80
75
73
50
48
44
43
38
34
29
27
26
25
21
21
17
17
17
16
15
14
14
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUSTA:

20% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
15% chance
Suggested:
CARNE
7% chance
Suggested:
PROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
DROLE 6.04 bits
15.1% →
CARNE 5.44 bits
6.6% →
PROLE 5.21 bits
5.9% →
THEIR 5.29 bits
5.2% →
CARLE 4.79 bits
4.3% →
SHALE 4.77 bits
3.4% →
CRONE 5.23 bits
3.2% →
CLINE 4.38 bits
3.1% →
SOREL 4.64 bits
2.1% →
LEAST 4.06 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1S1T1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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