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

MOHOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of moho

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

Use MOHOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.

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 MOHOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOHOS 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 63.2% of games, misses completely in 36.8%, and leaves about 408 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,788 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 MOHOS 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.

3.68 Entropy (bits)
408 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOHOS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,788 Rank among openers
Opening with MOHOS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,788 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
729
4 guesses
1,271
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
28

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
22%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

MOHOS can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

877 answers
325 answers
165 answers
155 answers
127 answers
89 answers
82 answers
58 answers
51 answers
46 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1H4O1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MOHOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOHOS:

37% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
CARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.8% →
RAILE 6.25 bits
13.6% →
TIARE 5.65 bits
6.9% →
CARTE 5.70 bits
6.5% →
TRONE 5.13 bits
5.3% →
CARLE 4.71 bits
3.7% →
RAILE 5.33 bits
3.4% →
SERAL 4.62 bits
2.4% →
TALER 4.63 bits
2.1% →
NAICE 4.61 bits
1.9% →
REACT 4.34 bits

Research on MOHOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOHOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,207 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,449 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).