5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MOOBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of moob

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of moob

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 MOOBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOOBS 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 62.3% of games, misses completely in 37.7%, and leaves about 432 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,946 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__B_ M in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE STALE CARLE RAILE LATER CRANE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
432 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOOBS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,946 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOOBS ranks #11,946 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
317
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
27%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

890
383
141
136
104
98
89
57
54
35
35
22
21
17
16
15
15
15
15
14
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13
10
10
10
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6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOOBS:

38% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
16% chance
Suggested:
STALE
6% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.7% →
TIARE 6.22 bits
16.2% →
STALE 5.60 bits
6.0% →
CARLE 4.70 bits
5.8% →
RAILE 5.56 bits
4.4% →
LATER 5.23 bits
4.2% →
CRANE 4.75 bits
3.8% →
PARLE 5.18 bits
2.4% →
NAICE 4.76 bits
2.3% →
CRUET 4.12 bits
1.5% →
URITE 4.07 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1O1B3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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