MORPH
Yes, MORPH was the Wordle answer on June 6, 2026 (Wordle #1813).
As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /mɔː(ɹ)f/
- Noun
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A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
- Noun
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An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
- Verb
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To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
- Verb
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To shapeshift.
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 6, 2026 (#1813).
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See what the public sample says →How MORPH performs as a guess
MORPH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,764 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe MORPH 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How MORPH 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches MORPH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
MORPH can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for MORPH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing MORPH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MORPH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing MORPH:
Research on MORPH
Game-tree analysis and word research for MORPH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with MORPH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,962 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,643 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, MORPH is a kind of change or distort.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- MORPH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.7 of 5).
In a sentence
It is time to morph!
In the book, the protagonist can morph.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).