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

MORNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of morn

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 MORNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MORNS 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,757 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__N_ M in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MORNS 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MORNS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,757 Rank among openers
Opening with MORNS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,757 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
953
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
19
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
1 vowels
Common:
NORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

MORNS can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

415 answers
284 answers
229 answers
139 answers
90 answers
84 answers
81 answers
69 answers
66 answers
62 answers
56 answers
47 answers
41 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1R1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

DEALT ARIEL STALE AINEE BLATE THALE

Strategy after playing MORNS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MORNS:

17% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
12% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
DEALT 6.18 bits
12.0% →
ARIEL 5.17 bits
9.6% →
STALE 5.84 bits
5.9% →
AINEE 5.11 bits
3.8% →
BLATE 4.82 bits
3.5% →
THALE 4.31 bits
3.4% →
CADET 4.37 bits
2.9% →
TUILE 4.48 bits
2.8% →
SPATE 4.91 bits
2.6% →
CAGEY 4.58 bits

Research on MORNS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MORNS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #1,995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #613 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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

One syllable Say it MAWRNZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MORNS is a kind of period.

Synonyms morning

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MORNS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).