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

MOBLE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəl/

Verb

To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MOBLE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% 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 MOBLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOBLE 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,725 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe MOBLE 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOBLE 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,725 Rank among openers
Opening with MOBLE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,725 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
38%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

MOBLE can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

418 answers
301 answers
195 answers
158 answers
136 answers
107 answers
99 answers
63 answers
54 answers
52 answers
49 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1B3L1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing MOBLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOBLE:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
SAINT 6.25 bits
12.6% →
STAIR 5.32 bits
8.2% →
STAIR 5.09 bits
6.6% →
ARSON 5.19 bits
5.7% →
SLAIN 5.16 bits
4.5% →
RENAL 4.67 bits
4.2% →
SHART 4.44 bits
2.6% →
SAURY 4.26 bits
2.3% →
STAMP 4.70 bits
2.2% →
SLART 4.12 bits

Research on MOBLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOBLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,222 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,114 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOBLE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).