5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MORAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An unmarried Maasai or Samburu warrior.

Noun

Misspelling of moron, sometimes intentional.

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 MORAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MORAN 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #893 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___N M in the 1st position and N in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

STILE SLATE TRIED SEITY STOLE SAINT
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.08 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MORAN 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#893 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MORAN ranks #893 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,083
5 guesses
181
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:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

338
263
185
144
138
100
93
79
78
58
52
45
36
36
34
34
33
32
32
25
23
20
20
19
19
18
17
17
17
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MORAN:

14% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
STILE 6.20 bits
11.2% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
7.8% →
TRIED 5.25 bits
6.1% →
SEITY 5.12 bits
5.9% →
SLATE 4.60 bits
4.2% →
STILE 5.11 bits
3.9% →
STOLE 4.44 bits
3.4% →
SAINT 4.47 bits
3.3% →
TRIDE 4.18 bits
2.5% →
SHULE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1R1A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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