5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MONGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of mong

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 MONGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MONGS 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,695 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

M___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__G_ M in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE STALE TALER ARIEL ALURE GLARE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
262 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MONGS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,695 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MONGS ranks #5,695 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
193
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
23%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

652
305
160
146
115
82
81
67
62
60
54
44
39
37
33
27
26
20
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20
18
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14
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MONGS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
13% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
TIARE 6.26 bits
12.9% →
STALE 5.75 bits
6.8% →
TALER 5.23 bits
6.2% →
ARIEL 5.44 bits
4.9% →
TALER 4.65 bits
3.5% →
ALURE 5.11 bits
3.4% →
GLARE 5.16 bits
2.8% →
CADIE 4.53 bits
2.6% →
REACT 4.21 bits
2.5% →
LIANE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1N1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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