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

MOILE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of moil.

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 MOILE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOILE 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 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,714 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 MOILE 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.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOILE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,714 Rank among openers
Opening with MOILE 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,714 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
957
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
17
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
3 vowels
Common:
EILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
43%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

MOILE can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

257 answers
256 answers
144 answers
138 answers
128 answers
102 answers
100 answers
94 answers
80 answers
55 answers
54 answers
51 answers
45 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1I1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MOILE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOILE:

11% chance
Suggested:
SCANT
11% chance
Suggested:
RESET
6% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8%
SCANT 5.84 bits
10.8%
RESET 5.49 bits
6.1%
REAST 4.89 bits
5.8%
ARSON 5.12 bits
5.4%
SATIN 4.88 bits
4.3%
STARY 4.52 bits
4.2%
SERAL 4.51 bits
4.0%
SAUNT 4.85 bits
3.4%
STARY 4.64 bits
2.3%
RIPEN 4.45 bits

Research on MOILE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOILE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #957 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,072 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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

One syllable Say it MOYL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.