5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

MOOSE

Yes, MOOSE was the Wordle answer on March 1, 2023 (Wordle #620).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /muːs//mʉs/

Noun

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

“We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.”

Noun

Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 1, 2023 (#620).

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

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How MOOSE performs as a guess

MOOSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,222 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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__S_ M in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER LAIRY SLANT CLARY STEER
Words starting with M Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOOSE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#10,222 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOOSE ranks #10,222 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
42%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
M O O S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOOSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

459
380
195
168
107
82
80
78
64
61
55
35
35
35
32
29
29
28
21
21
20
17
16
16
15
15
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOOSE:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
16.1% →
ALTER 5.33 bits
8.3% →
LAIRY 4.41 bits
7.1% →
SLANT 5.15 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.56 bits
3.5% →
STEER 4.59 bits
3.4% →
BARON 5.16 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 4.26 bits
2.7% →
PEART 3.76 bits
2.6% →
SHART 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1O1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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