5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MONIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic spelling of money.

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 MONIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MONIE 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,610 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position MO_IE M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

Try next

SERAL SLART SHALT SALTY SLANT DIVER
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MONIE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,610 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MONIE ranks #1,610 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,099
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
16
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
3 vowels
Common:
EINO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
41%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

305
277
168
153
142
110
79
62
59
59
56
54
52
48
46
34
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25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MONIE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.9% →
SERAL 5.43 bits
11.7% →
SLART 5.98 bits
7.1% →
SLART 5.28 bits
6.5% →
SHALT 5.10 bits
6.0% →
SLART 5.25 bits
4.7% →
SALTY 4.46 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.88 bits
2.6% →
SLART 4.17 bits
2.5% →
DIVER 4.27 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1N1I1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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