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MAFIA started life as a proper noun but is most often used these days as a common noun, but I wasn’t sure if that was enough to make it eligible.
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That was my reasoning too, and why I went with what I did in my 4th guess.
Wordle 1,815 4/6*
Chirp
Inbox
Dilly
Mafia 
fugazi
Wordle 1,815 6/6
THUMB → Slow start. Try the known letter in first, add A & E and two WoFcons and try
MATES → Darn it, should have been MARES rather than replaying the T - or MALES, or MANES. Make sure I get it right this time, and with an O
MANOR → That’s better. Is there an I in there?
MALIC → There is. Getting low on letters, do I have a repeat?
MAXIM → Not of the M. One guess left, the only one I see has a different repeated letter, but let’s try it
MAFIA
After my followup fumble (the three variants on what I tried were 1, 3, and 5/979, respectively) my guesses were pretty acceptable by Scoredle standards - 6/77, 8/31, 1/3 and then the only valid answer for the double bogey - but I think that followup lost me a full guess. Scoredle gets it in four, with a tap-in on the clincher.
Wordle 1,816 3/6
no Ai 
Wordle 1,815 5/6
CRANE
HOIST
BASIL
VAPID
MAFIA - I didn’t try this earlier because I thought it was a proper noun
Hey, it’s the Eiffel Tower!
Wordle 1,815 4/6*
STEAL
DAIRY
CABIN
MAFIA
I almost put MAFIA before CABIN, but I thought it might not be a proper Wordle answer.
Join the crowd - cmyk, Chefguy, and I all found ourselves making other guesses before the solution for that reason.
Apparently, it’s only a proper noun when it refers to the specific organization that started in Italy. But as a general noun referring to any general criminal syndicate, it’s not.
Wordle 1,815 5/6
MORAL
MANSE
MATCH
MADAM
MAFIA
Word 4 was an unforced error (I’d already eliminated A in the fourth position), but at the same time it told me there was a second A and not a second M, which was useful information. A par wasn’t going to be in the cards anyway.
Wordle 1,816 4/6 TUESDAY
AUDIO
FRAME
DWARF stupid…
WHARF
Wordle 1,816 4/6
RATIO
SNARL
CHARM
WHARF
Wordle 1,816 4/6*
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}
Wordle 1,816 3/6
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 58/99
Wordle 1816 3/6
SLANT
CHORE
WHARF
Nice green pyramid. 
For sure! The question was really whether Josh Wardle might’ve excluded it on account of its having been a proper noun. It’s not always clear where the lines are within the universe of this game, at least for those of us who don’t choose to access Wardle’s original list of solutions.
Wordle 1,816 4/6
YODEL
ASTIR
BURQA
WHARF
Pretty sure that if it was exclusively a proper noun, WWF wouldn’t allow it, and angramming apps wouldn’t list it.
Wordle 1,816 4/6 — 2026-06-09 Tue
STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
WHARF
Wordle 1,816 3/6
HEART
SHARK
WHARF