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

MOOTH

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

No dictionary definition for MOOTH 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 MOOTH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 84.4% 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 MOOTH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOOTH 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 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 372 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,548 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 MOOTH 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
372 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOOTH 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,548 Rank among openers
Opening with MOOTH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,548 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
801
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
33%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

MOOTH can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

846 answers
304 answers
129 answers
111 answers
107 answers
103 answers
91 answers
72 answers
55 answers
51 answers
45 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1O1T1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MOOTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOOTH:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
5% chance
Suggested:
SLYER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
RAILE 6.27 bits
12.8% →
ARIEL 5.68 bits
5.4% →
SLYER 4.81 bits
4.7% →
RAISE 5.31 bits
4.5% →
CRANE 4.99 bits
4.3% →
PARLE 5.38 bits
3.8% →
BARON 5.13 bits
3.0% →
RAISE 4.64 bits
2.3% →
SLANE 4.54 bits
2.1% →
NAICE 4.58 bits

Research on MOOTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOOTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,779 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,902 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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
MOOTH sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).