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MODEL

Yes, MODEL was the Wordle answer on July 1, 2021 (Wordle #12).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒd.l̩/[ˈmɒd.ɫ̩]/ˈmɑ.dl̩/

Noun

A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.

“Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper.”

Noun

A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.

Adjective

Worthy of being a model; exemplary.

Verb

To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.

“She modelled the shoes for her friends to appreciate.”

Alternative forms: modell

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

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MAHDUHL.

Related meanings

Synonyms example sit pattern framework pose modeling

Opposites unworthy

In a sentence

This is the new model.
© tatoeba.org contributor Kerbear832 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is a new model.
© tatoeba.org contributor Spamster (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use MODEL in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 1, 2021 (#12).

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

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MODEL in Connections

8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How MODEL performs as a guess

MODEL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,207 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___L M in the 1st position and L in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position MO_EL M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MODEL 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MODEL 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,207 Rank among openers
Opening with MODEL 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 3.62 average. It ranks #2,207 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
33%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
V I N Y L
B O W E L
M O D E L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MODEL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MODEL can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

395 answers
313 answers
153 answers
144 answers
134 answers
113 answers
89 answers
62 answers
61 answers
59 answers
57 answers
51 answers
41 answers
33 answers
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21 answers
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17 answers
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16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1D2E1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SAINT STARE ARSON SAUCY STAIR STALE

Strategy after playing MODEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MODEL:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
6% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
SAINT 6.29 bits
13.1% →
STARE 5.62 bits
6.4% →
ARSON 5.27 bits
6.0% →
SAUCY 5.15 bits
5.6% →
STAIR 4.70 bits
4.7% →
STALE 4.77 bits
3.7% →
SHART 4.54 bits
2.6% →
DEARE 4.76 bits
2.6% →
PRASE 4.28 bits
2.5% →
DRAIN 5.05 bits

Research on MODEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with MODEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #943 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 MODEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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
MODEL sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 135 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).