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

MOPEY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈməʊpɪ//ˈməʊpi//ˈmoʊpi/

Adjective

Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.

Alternative forms: mopy

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 MOPEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOPEY 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,020 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position MO_EY M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOPEY 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOPEY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,020 Rank among openers
Opening with MOPEY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,020 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

MOPEY can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

417 answers
408 answers
192 answers
184 answers
154 answers
97 answers
73 answers
69 answers
55 answers
46 answers
45 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
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16 answers
15 answers
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14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1P3E1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SLANT SLART ARSON STAIR SAINT SNARE

Strategy after playing MOPEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOPEY:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
SLANT 6.11 bits
17.2% →
SLART 5.69 bits
8.1% →
ARSON 5.16 bits
7.8% →
STAIR 4.75 bits
6.5% →
SAINT 4.85 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.55 bits
3.1% →
SNARE 4.19 bits
2.9% →
STAIR 4.67 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
1.9% →
DROLE 3.43 bits

Research on MOPEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOPEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,675 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,382 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MOHPEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOPEY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).