Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

MOONI

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

No dictionary definition for MOONI is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use MOONI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MOONI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOONI 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 68.3% of games, misses completely in 31.7%, and leaves about 330 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,797 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MOONI 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.

3.97 Entropy (bits)
330 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOONI 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,797 Rank among openers
Opening with MOONI left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,797 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
31%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

MOONI can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

756 answers
349 answers
143 answers
132 answers
119 answers
97 answers
93 answers
79 answers
70 answers
54 answers
40 answers
36 answers
32 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1O1N1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MOONI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOONI:

32% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
STILE
6% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.7% →
REAST 6.33 bits
14.6% →
STILE 5.35 bits
6.0% →
CARLE 4.74 bits
5.5% →
SANER 5.18 bits
5.0% →
CRATE 4.94 bits
4.1% →
TIARE 4.49 bits
3.9% →
PRASE 5.25 bits
3.3% →
LEAST 4.78 bits
2.9% →
LATER 5.05 bits
2.3% →
STAGE 3.97 bits

Research on MOONI

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOONI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,374 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,286 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).