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

MOARS

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

No dictionary definition for MOARS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use MOARS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MOARS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOARS 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,548 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MOARS 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.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOARS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,548 Rank among openers
Opening with MOARS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,548 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,117
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
33%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

MOARS can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
208 answers
194 answers
158 answers
103 answers
100 answers
88 answers
79 answers
77 answers
74 answers
69 answers
58 answers
56 answers
56 answers
52 answers
50 answers
42 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1A1R1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing MOARS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOARS:

14% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
9% chance
Suggested:
PALET
8% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
CLINE 6.00 bits
8.7% →
PALET 5.27 bits
8.1% →
TRIED 5.17 bits
6.6% →
STILE 5.36 bits
4.3% →
CLUEY 4.30 bits
4.2% →
RATEL 4.54 bits
3.7% →
CLINE 5.12 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.11 bits
3.2% →
CLINE 4.65 bits
3.1% →
THALE 4.32 bits

Research on MOARS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOARS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,320 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,463 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).