Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

AMOVE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To set in motion; to stir up, excite.

Verb

To remove.

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 AMOVE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMOVE 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,742 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe AMOVE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.58 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMOVE 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,742 Rank among openers
Opening with AMOVE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,742 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
747
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
31%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

AMOVE can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

320 answers
305 answers
293 answers
152 answers
143 answers
139 answers
133 answers
95 answers
63 answers
62 answers
60 answers
46 answers
45 answers
37 answers
34 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3O1V4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing AMOVE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AMOVE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMOVE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
12% chance
Suggested:
SETER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5%
SPILT 5.60 bits
12.8%
SLART 5.24 bits
12.3%
SETER 5.45 bits
6.4%
DONUT 4.89 bits
6.0%
PETAL 4.71 bits
5.9%
SIENT 4.54 bits
5.6%
SLANT 4.26 bits
4.0%
SLART 4.56 bits
2.7%
TONAL 4.46 bits
2.6%
TOWER 4.07 bits

Research on AMOVE

Game-tree analysis and word research for AMOVE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with AMOVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,063 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with AMOVE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHMOOV. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.