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

MOGAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Automotive gasoline suitable for use in some piston-engined gasoline powered aircraft.

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 MOGAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOGAS 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,049 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MO_AS M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, A in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOGAS 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOGAS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,049 Rank among openers
Opening with MOGAS 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,049 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
861
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
12
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:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
25%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

MOGAS can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

464 answers
328 answers
202 answers
150 answers
150 answers
126 answers
80 answers
77 answers
74 answers
66 answers
56 answers
49 answers
38 answers
37 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1G2A1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

LINER CARTE STILE THALE TRINE TRONE

Strategy after playing MOGAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOGAS:

20% chance
Suggested:
LINER
14% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
LINER 5.88 bits
13.8% →
CARTE 5.49 bits
8.5% →
STILE 5.34 bits
6.3% →
THALE 4.94 bits
6.3% →
TRINE 5.20 bits
5.3% →
TRONE 4.40 bits
3.4% →
RENAL 4.56 bits
3.2% →
TRINE 5.04 bits
3.1% →
TRIPE 4.06 bits
2.8% →
TALER 4.44 bits

Research on MOGAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOGAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,748 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,320 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 MOHGUHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOGAS 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).