5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

MUSTY

Yes, MUSTY was the Wordle answer on May 7, 2024 (Wordle #1053).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmʌsti/

Adjective

Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.

Adjective

Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.

“musty food musty furniture a musty odour”

Noun

A type of snuff with a musty flavour (adjective sense 2).

Verb

To turn musty (adjective sense 1 or 2); to must.

Alternative forms: musthy

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 7, 2024 (#1053).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How MUSTY performs as a guess

MUSTY 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 71.8% of games, misses completely in 28.2%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,391 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL CRANE DROLE STARE CRONE CARLE
Words starting with M Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUSTY 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,391 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUSTY ranks #5,391 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
189
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
1 vowels
Common:
STU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
30%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
M U S T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MUSTY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

664
246
226
165
113
95
78
56
51
49
48
47
33
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26
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUSTY:

28% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.2% →
ARIEL 6.19 bits
10.4% →
ARIEL 5.63 bits
9.6% →
CRANE 5.43 bits
7.0% →
DROLE 5.07 bits
4.8% →
STARE 4.73 bits
4.0% →
CRONE 5.21 bits
3.3% →
ARIEL 5.22 bits
2.4% →
CARLE 4.61 bits
2.2% →
SLANE 4.09 bits
2.1% →
IRADE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1S1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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