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

MOLYS

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use MOLYS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% 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 MOLYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOLYS 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 219 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,755 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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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First-turn measures

All four describe MOLYS 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.

4.40 Entropy (bits)
219 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOLYS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,755 Rank among openers
Opening with MOLYS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,755 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
203
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
21%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

MOLYS can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

541 answers
260 answers
256 answers
178 answers
156 answers
99 answers
70 answers
64 answers
59 answers
55 answers
54 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
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31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1L1Y4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MOLYS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOLYS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
11% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
TRACE 6.40 bits
10.9% →
TIARE 5.68 bits
10.7% →
RAINE 5.42 bits
7.5% →
TRINE 5.34 bits
6.5% →
TIARE 4.84 bits
4.2% →
RANCE 4.81 bits
2.9% →
THALE 4.67 bits
2.7% →
SNORT 4.36 bits
2.5% →
IRATE 5.10 bits
2.3% →
SPATE 4.34 bits

Research on MOLYS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOLYS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,955 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,912 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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).