5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MUZAK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Muzak (“easy listening music, especially if regarded as uninteresting; something regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding”).

Verb

Alternative letter-case form of Muzak.

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 MUZAK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUZAK 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 65.1% of games, misses completely in 34.9%, and leaves about 434 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,052 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___K M in the 1st position and K in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__K U in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

SIREN TARSE TRONE STIRE TALER TOILE
Words starting with M Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
434 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUZAK 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
0.72 Volatility
#14,052 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUZAK ranks #14,052 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
619
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
406
6 guesses
26
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:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
23%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

822
517
172
125
122
72
59
45
43
40
39
37
31
31
23
17
16
14
12
10
9
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUZAK:

35% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
22% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.9% →
SIREN 5.99 bits
21.9% →
TARSE 5.55 bits
7.3% →
TRONE 5.41 bits
5.3% →
STIRE 4.69 bits
5.2% →
TALER 4.77 bits
3.1% →
TOILE 5.17 bits
2.5% →
SLIER 4.58 bits
1.9% →
CRISE 4.69 bits
1.8% →
TRONE 4.63 bits
1.7% →
SAULT 4.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1Z10A1K5
Total: 20 points

Words With Friends

Total: 22 points

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