5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MOLOI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /məˈlɔɪ//mɔˈlɔɪ/

Noun

A magician, witch, wizard, or other magic-user, especially in traditional tribal society.

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 MOLOI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOLOI 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 292 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,258 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___I M in the 1st position and I in the 5th position M__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

REAST TRINE CRATE CRUET GLARE TRAPE
Words starting with M Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.98 Entropy (bits)
292 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOLOI 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,258 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOLOI ranks #11,258 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
300
6 guesses
29
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
25%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

653
353
252
152
128
115
74
53
51
43
38
37
32
27
27
25
24
22
21
20
15
15
14
11
11
10
10
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOLOI:

28% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
REAST 6.40 bits
15.0% →
TRINE 5.62 bits
10.7% →
REAST 5.36 bits
6.4% →
CRATE 5.37 bits
5.4% →
CRUET 4.83 bits
4.9% →
GLARE 4.45 bits
3.1% →
TRAPE 5.06 bits
2.2% →
GLACE 3.97 bits
2.2% →
SABLE 4.84 bits
1.8% →
CANER 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1L1O1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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