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

MOHAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The currency of the Kingdom of Nepal and adjoining parts of Videha from the late 17th century until 1932, subdivided into dams.

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 MOHAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOHAR 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,738 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 MOHAR 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOHAR 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,738 Rank among openers
Opening with MOHAR solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,738 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
208
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:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

MOHAR can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

388 answers
290 answers
193 answers
131 answers
118 answers
114 answers
107 answers
76 answers
69 answers
67 answers
66 answers
51 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
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17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1H4A1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MOHAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOHAR:

16% chance
Suggested:
STILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3%
STILE 6.16 bits
12.2%
SALET 5.61 bits
8.1%
SEINE 5.16 bits
5.5%
TRICE 4.63 bits
5.0%
CLINE 5.08 bits
4.8%
SIENT 5.23 bits
4.5%
SLIDE 4.51 bits
3.2%
SPINE 3.98 bits
2.9%
SLATE 4.87 bits
2.8%
SIDLE 3.61 bits

Research on MOHAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOHAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,675 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 MOHAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 MOHHUR.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOHAR 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).