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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MOAIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of moai

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 MOAIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOAIS 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 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,621 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LEERY TALER TRINE DROLE TRONE TRUCE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.92 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOAIS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,621 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOAIS ranks #6,621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
34%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

263
252
243
141
137
132
130
88
82
74
72
69
49
48
37
31
30
24
23
21
21
21
20
16
16
15
13
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOAIS:

11% chance
Suggested:
LEERY
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
LEERY 5.38 bits
10.7% →
TALER 5.46 bits
10.3% →
TRINE 5.38 bits
6.0% →
DROLE 4.32 bits
5.8% →
TRONE 4.86 bits
5.6% →
TRUCE 4.96 bits
5.5% →
SLEET 5.04 bits
3.7% →
THALE 4.25 bits
3.5% →
TRINE 4.53 bits
3.1% →
PALET 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1A1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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