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MOBED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of mobad.

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 MOBED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOBED 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 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,763 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position MO_ED M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MOBED.

First-turn measures

All four describe MOBED 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOBED 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,763 Rank among openers
Opening with MOBED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,763 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
7
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
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
32%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

MOBED can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

522 answers
388 answers
183 answers
171 answers
108 answers
70 answers
69 answers
63 answers
58 answers
58 answers
44 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1B3E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLART SNORT STAIR SALTY SNORE

Strategy after playing MOBED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOBED:

22% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0% →
SAINT 6.17 bits
16.3% →
SLART 5.90 bits
7.7% →
SNORT 5.14 bits
7.2% →
STAIR 4.68 bits
4.5% →
SALTY 4.59 bits
2.9% →
SNORE 4.19 bits
2.9% →
GEARE 4.54 bits
2.7% →
CLAMP 4.74 bits
2.4% →
DRAIN 4.74 bits
2.4% →
SLANT 4.79 bits

Research on MOBED

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOBED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,385 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 MOBED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

One syllable Say it MOHBD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MOBED is a kind of crowd or group.

Synonyms family ring pack gang jam pile

Familiarity and learning

Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).