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

MONDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A ball-like object, located near the top of a crown, symbolizing the globe.

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 MONDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MONDE 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,937 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MONDE 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.

4.86 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MONDE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,937 Rank among openers
Opening with MONDE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,937 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

MONDE can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

413 answers
300 answers
197 answers
144 answers
138 answers
100 answers
74 answers
71 answers
69 answers
65 answers
58 answers
42 answers
41 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1N1D2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MONDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MONDE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4%
SLART 6.12 bits
12.6%
SLART 5.59 bits
8.3%
SLART 5.43 bits
6.1%
SLART 5.33 bits
5.8%
SAINT 5.35 bits
4.2%
SALTY 4.52 bits
3.1%
ARIEL 4.68 bits
3.0%
ARIEL 4.57 bits
2.9%
CLAMP 4.89 bits
2.7%
LAIRY 4.96 bits

Research on MONDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MONDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,909 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MONDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it MAHND.

Rhymes with BLOND FROND

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MONDE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).