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MORAL

Yes, MORAL was the Wordle answer on April 16, 2025 (Wordle #1397).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɒɹəl//ˈmoɹəl//ˈmɑɹəl/

Adjective

Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude.

“moral judgments; a moral poem”

Adjective

Conforming to a given standard of right behaviour.

“a moral action”

Noun

The ethical significance or practical lesson.

“The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.”

Noun

Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

“a candidate with strong morals”

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: April 16, 2025 (#1397).

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

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How MORAL performs as a guess

MORAL 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,425 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___L M in the 1st position and L in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SIENT CASTE TRIED SLICE STANE STALE
Words starting with M Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.13 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MORAL 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,425 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MORAL ranks #1,425 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
982
4 guesses
1,092
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
30%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A L M Y
M O R A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MORAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

317
222
191
146
143
116
99
95
93
57
41
37
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33
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MORAL:

13% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
9% chance
Suggested:
CASTE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SIENT 6.23 bits
9.4% →
CASTE 5.41 bits
8.1% →
TRIED 5.31 bits
6.2% →
SLICE 5.15 bits
6.1% →
STANE 4.56 bits
4.9% →
STALE 4.83 bits
4.2% →
SIENT 5.24 bits
4.0% →
STONE 4.37 bits
3.9% →
TRINE 4.44 bits
2.4% →
SHUTE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1R1A1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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