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MOJOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mojo

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mojo

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 MOJOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOJOS 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 56.7% of games, misses completely in 43.3%, and leaves about 550 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,312 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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.

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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__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position MO_OS M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOJOS 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.

3.12 Entropy (bits)
550 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOJOS 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,312 Rank among openers
Opening with MOJOS left 1 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 3.93 average. It ranks #14,312 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
607
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
424
6 guesses
32
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
22%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

MOJOS can come back 49 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1028 answers
407 answers
175 answers
156 answers
104 answers
62 answers
61 answers
58 answers
37 answers
35 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
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14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
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8 answers
7 answers
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6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
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4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1J8O1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

RAILE STALE CRANE CARNE REACT TALER

Strategy after playing MOJOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOJOS:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
17% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.3% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
17.1% →
STALE 5.61 bits
7.4% →
CRANE 5.27 bits
6.6% →
CARNE 4.72 bits
4.4% →
RAILE 5.33 bits
2.6% →
REACT 4.23 bits
2.6% →
TALER 4.74 bits
2.4% →
NAICE 4.74 bits
1.6% →
SPIRE 4.13 bits
1.5% →
PLACE 4.42 bits

Research on MOJOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOJOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,329 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.08 guesses at best and is rank #6,997 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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 MOHJOHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MOJOS is a kind of magic.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOJOS 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).