5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MONTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnti/

Noun

A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.

Noun

A wood or forest; timberland.

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 MONTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MONTE 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,955 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SCALY ARIEL SLART SHIRT CAROL SLANG
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MONTE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,955 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MONTE ranks #2,955 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
907
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

315
244
171
134
120
111
97
78
64
62
55
52
51
42
40
39
32
31
30
29
29
27
25
22
20
20
20
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MONTE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SCALY
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SCALY 5.69 bits
10.3% →
ARIEL 5.09 bits
7.3% →
SLART 4.69 bits
5.7% →
SHIRT 5.28 bits
5.1% →
SLART 4.91 bits
4.7% →
CAROL 5.10 bits
4.1% →
SLANG 4.86 bits
3.3% →
SADLY 4.26 bits
2.7% →
SIREN 4.45 bits
2.6% →
CLAMP 4.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1N1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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