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MODOC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A member of a Native American tribe formerly living in California and Oregon, and now in Oklahoma as well.

Proper noun

The language of this tribe.

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 MODOC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MODOC 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 59.4% of games, misses completely in 40.6%, and leaves about 459 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,037 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___C M in the 1st position and C in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__C O in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MODOC 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.

3.60 Entropy (bits)
459 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MODOC 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#10,037 Rank among openers
Opening with MODOC solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,037 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,291
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
13
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
24%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

MODOC can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

965 answers
246 answers
176 answers
158 answers
122 answers
105 answers
54 answers
47 answers
46 answers
42 answers
35 answers
30 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1D2O1C3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SALET CHARE ARIEL STARE SLYER ALURE

Strategy after playing MODOC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MODOC:

41% chance
Suggested:
SALET
10% chance
Suggested:
CHARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.6% →
SALET 6.36 bits
10.4% →
CHARE 5.59 bits
7.4% →
ARIEL 5.55 bits
6.7% →
STARE 5.25 bits
5.1% →
SLYER 4.72 bits
4.4% →
ALURE 5.40 bits
2.3% →
TALER 4.66 bits
2.0% →
SAYNE 4.50 bits
1.9% →
CRAKE 4.38 bits
1.8% →
ANILE 4.49 bits

Research on MODOC

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

Optimal play

Opening with MODOC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,811 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 MODOC can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 MAHDUHK. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MODOC sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).