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

MOLTO

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

No dictionary definition for MOLTO is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MOLTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOLTO 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 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,788 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

M___O M in the 1st position and O in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOLTO 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOLTO 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,788 Rank among openers
Opening with MOLTO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,788 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
830
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
20
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:
LOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
26%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

MOLTO can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

654 answers
294 answers
283 answers
148 answers
104 answers
84 answers
80 answers
70 answers
59 answers
59 answers
48 answers
47 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1L1T1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

RAISE CRANE SUCRE PRASE REAST BAILE

Strategy after playing MOLTO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOLTO:

28% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.5% →
RAISE 6.20 bits
12.4% →
RAISE 5.40 bits
11.9% →
RAISE 5.68 bits
6.2% →
CRANE 5.53 bits
4.4% →
SUCRE 4.75 bits
3.5% →
RAISE 4.84 bits
3.4% →
PRASE 5.17 bits
2.9% →
REAST 4.58 bits
2.5% →
BAILE 4.60 bits
2.5% →
SIREN 4.66 bits

Research on MOLTO

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOLTO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,021 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,551 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 MOHLTOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOLTO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).