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MOFOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mofo

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 MOFOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOFOS 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 61.4% of games, misses completely in 38.6%, and leaves about 451 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MO_OS M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOFOS 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.

3.49 Entropy (bits)
451 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOFOS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,736 Rank among openers
Opening with MOFOS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,736 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
713
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
342
6 guesses
20
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:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
23%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

MOFOS can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

916 answers
382 answers
160 answers
146 answers
104 answers
99 answers
60 answers
60 answers
57 answers
38 answers
35 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1F4O1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

RAILE STALE CRANE CARNE ALURE LATER

Strategy after playing MOFOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOFOS:

39% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
16% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.6% →
RAILE 6.19 bits
16.1% →
STALE 5.61 bits
6.7% →
CRANE 5.31 bits
6.1% →
CARNE 4.70 bits
4.4% →
RAILE 5.40 bits
4.2% →
ALURE 5.20 bits
2.5% →
LATER 4.72 bits
2.5% →
REACT 4.23 bits
2.4% →
NAICE 4.73 bits
1.6% →
URITE 4.04 bits

Research on MOFOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOFOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,822 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,922 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 MOHFOHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOFOS 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).