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

MORGY

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

No dictionary definition for MORGY 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 MORGY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% 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 MORGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MORGY 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 256 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,358 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 MORGY 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.

4.37 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MORGY 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,358 Rank among openers
Opening with MORGY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,358 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
33%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MORGY can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

628 answers
335 answers
170 answers
158 answers
107 answers
90 answers
79 answers
72 answers
60 answers
47 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1R1G2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing MORGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MORGY:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
SLATE 6.44 bits
14.1% →
IRATE 5.27 bits
7.1% →
SLANT 5.23 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 4.95 bits
4.5% →
SATED 4.60 bits
3.8% →
SINCE 4.73 bits
3.3% →
LIANE 5.19 bits
3.0% →
SPALE 5.22 bits
2.5% →
SAUTE 5.06 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 4.36 bits

Research on MORGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with MORGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,495 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,137 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 3.72, 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
MORGY 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).