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MOMMY

Yes, MOMMY was the Wordle answer on October 9, 2024 (Wordle #1208).

As an opener, it rules out about 71.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒm.i//ˈmɔ.mi/

Noun

Mother.

Noun

A sexually attractive mother.

Verb

To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.

Adjective

Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

“She is the mommiest of mommies.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 9, 2024 (#1208).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 9, 2024 (#1208).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How MOMMY performs as a guess

MOMMY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 49.9% of games, misses completely in 50.1%, and leaves about 686 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,753 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.03 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__M_ M in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOMMY 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.

2.74 Entropy (bits)
686 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
71.1% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOMMY 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.

4.03 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#14,753 Rank among openers
Opening with MOMMY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 4.03 average. It ranks #14,753 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
509
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
548
6 guesses
46
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
31%
All gray
50%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
M O M M Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOMMY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MOMMY can come back 44 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1189 answers
331 answers
246 answers
174 answers
58 answers
51 answers
43 answers
40 answers
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25 answers
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21 answers
19 answers
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11 answers
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6 answers
6 answers
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5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
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2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1M3M3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

RAISE SATER SLART CRUET DROLE SCARE

Strategy after playing MOMMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOMMY:

50% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
14% chance
Suggested:
SATER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

50.1% →
RAISE 6.12 bits
13.9% →
SATER 5.22 bits
10.4% →
SLART 4.79 bits
7.3% →
CRUET 4.89 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 3.69 bits
2.1% →
SCARE 5.08 bits
1.8% →
PLACE 4.43 bits
1.7% →
NAICE 4.80 bits
1.5% →
CARLE 4.61 bits
1.1% →
CADET 4.13 bits

Research on MOMMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOMMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.03 guesses and ranks #14,761 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.21 guesses at best and is rank #7,404 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.03, at or below the proven-optimal 4.03, 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 MAHMEE.

Rhymes with TOMMY SWAMI BALMY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MOMMY is a kind of mother.

Synonyms mom ma mum mama MUMMY MOMMA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOMMY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

Are you my new mommy?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You're going to be a mommy.
© tatoeba.org contributor CN (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).