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

MONER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any member of the former kingdom Monera.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MONER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% 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 MONER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MONER 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,139 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 MONER 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.

5.16 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MONER 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,139 Rank among openers
Opening with MONER 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 3.60 average. It ranks #1,139 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
975
4 guesses
1,128
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

MONER can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

313 answers
284 answers
167 answers
142 answers
119 answers
98 answers
88 answers
86 answers
61 answers
58 answers
57 answers
56 answers
44 answers
43 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1N1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MONER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MONER:

13% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLATY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
SAULT 5.97 bits
11.9% →
SLATE 5.86 bits
7.0% →
SLATY 5.20 bits
6.0% →
CRATE 4.93 bits
5.0% →
SAINT 5.30 bits
4.1% →
STOOL 5.20 bits
3.7% →
SAULT 3.74 bits
3.6% →
SALTY 4.52 bits
2.6% →
SLEET 4.54 bits
2.4% →
SEINE 4.49 bits

Research on MONER

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

Optimal play

Opening with MONER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #931 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 MONER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MONER sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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