5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

MORON

MORON is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːɹɒn//mo(ː)ɹɒn//-ɑn/

Noun

A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.

Noun

A hypothetical particle whose existence and configuration can make a moral judgment true.

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

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 MORON performs as a guess

MORON 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 281 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,014 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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__O_ M in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE ARIEL TUILE CASTE THALE PLATE
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
281 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MORON 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,014 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MORON ranks #9,014 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
815
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
F O R G O
M O R O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MORON in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

653
357
233
95
93
91
84
76
55
41
40
38
38
33
33
25
23
21
20
19
16
15
15
14
14
12
12
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MORON:

28% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
SLATE 6.48 bits
15.1% →
ARIEL 5.16 bits
9.9% →
TUILE 5.28 bits
4.0% →
SLATE 5.19 bits
3.9% →
CASTE 5.00 bits
3.9% →
THALE 4.50 bits
3.6% →
PLATE 5.22 bits
3.2% →
TRADE 4.44 bits
2.3% →
DIANE 4.52 bits
1.7% →
SAICE 4.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1R1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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