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

MOGGY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒ.ɡi//ˈmɑ.ɡi/

Noun

A domestic cat, especially (depreciative or derogatory) a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.

Noun

A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

Adjective

Irrational, out of touch

Alternative forms: moggie

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

Etymology

Unknown, but probably originally Mog + -y, a Scots or Northern English variant of maggie (“girl”), from Maggie, a diminutive of Margaret and Margery. First attested in reference to mongrel cats in Cockney.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use MOGGY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 78.3% of possible answers.

Open Solver with MOGGY Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MOGGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOGGY 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 57.1% of games, misses completely in 42.9%, and leaves about 518 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,964 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__G_ M in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position MO_GY M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, G in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOGGY 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.

3.33 Entropy (bits)
518 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOGGY 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,964 Rank among openers
Opening with MOGGY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #13,964 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
640
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
412
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
32%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

MOGGY can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1023 answers
291 answers
222 answers
148 answers
114 answers
90 answers
50 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1G2G2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

RAISE SATER SLART CARET PRASE URITE

Strategy after playing MOGGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOGGY:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
12% chance
Suggested:
SATER
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.9% →
RAISE 6.13 bits
12.2% →
SATER 5.28 bits
9.3% →
SLART 4.89 bits
6.2% →
CARET 4.94 bits
4.8% →
PRASE 5.39 bits
3.8% →
URITE 5.16 bits
2.1% →
DROLE 3.58 bits
1.7% →
TALER 4.43 bits
1.6% →
NAICE 4.60 bits
1.6% →
DAINE 4.06 bits

Research on MOGGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOGGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,846 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,792 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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
MOGGY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).