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

MODIN

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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

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 MODIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MODIN 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,289 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 MODIN 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.

4.51 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MODIN 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,289 Rank among openers
Opening with MODIN 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,289 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
14
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:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

MODIN can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

637 answers
218 answers
182 answers
149 answers
142 answers
95 answers
89 answers
85 answers
55 answers
49 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1D2I1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MODIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MODIN:

27% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
STRAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8%
TARSE 6.42 bits
9.2%
STILE 5.41 bits
7.7%
STRAE 5.28 bits
6.3%
SLATE 5.31 bits
6.0%
SLYER 4.62 bits
4.0%
STILE 4.28 bits
3.7%
SEARE 5.19 bits
3.6%
PRASE 5.24 bits
2.3%
TALER 4.96 bits
2.1%
DRICE 4.53 bits

Research on MODIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with MODIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,001 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 MODIN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MOHDIHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MODIN 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).