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MONTH

Yes, MONTH was the Wordle answer on March 9, 2022 (Wordle #263).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mʌnθ//mʊnt̪//mʊnt/

Noun

A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

“July is my favourite month.”

Noun

A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

“We went on holiday for two months.”

Alternative forms: moneth

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

How it sounds

One syllable Say it MUHNTH.

In a sentence

See you in a month.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What month is it now?
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use MONTH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

Open Solver with MONTH Open Word Finder

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 9, 2022 (#263).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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MONTH in Connections

4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How MONTH performs as a guess

MONTH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,000 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___H M in the 1st position and H in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position MO_TH M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MONTH.

First-turn measures

All four describe MONTH 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MONTH 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
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,000 Rank among openers
Opening with MONTH 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,000 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U S H Y
M O N T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MONTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MONTH can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

603 answers
231 answers
178 answers
145 answers
114 answers
93 answers
93 answers
68 answers
67 answers
65 answers
65 answers
62 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1N1T1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

RAILE REAST PALER PARLE SACRE SAINT

Strategy after playing MONTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MONTH:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
REAST
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3% →
RAILE 6.29 bits
9.7% →
REAST 5.68 bits
7.5% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
6.1% →
PALER 5.03 bits
4.8% →
PARLE 4.69 bits
3.9% →
SACRE 5.30 bits
3.9% →
PARLE 5.33 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 4.66 bits
2.8% →
SWARE 4.35 bits
2.7% →
SPARE 4.64 bits

Research on MONTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with MONTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,962 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,399 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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
MONTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 178 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 40 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).