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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

MOTEL

Yes, MOTEL was the Wordle answer on November 1, 2025 (Wordle #1596).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /moʊˈtɛl/

Noun

A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.

Noun

A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

Verb

To stay in a motel or motels.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 1, 2025 (#1596).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How MOTEL performs as a guess

MOTEL 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,728 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___L M in the 1st position and L in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN SEARE SAINT SAUCY AIDER ARSON
Words starting with M Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.20 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOTEL 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,728 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOTEL ranks #1,728 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
942
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
17
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:
ELOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
34%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M U L C H
M O T E L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOTEL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

120 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

276
253
153
130
121
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118
98
69
58
52
48
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOTEL:

12% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
11% chance
Suggested:
SEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.7% →
CAIRN 5.85 bits
10.7% →
SEARE 5.48 bits
6.5% →
SAINT 5.61 bits
5.5% →
SAUCY 5.08 bits
5.1% →
AIDER 4.20 bits
5.0% →
ARSON 5.26 bits
5.0% →
SHART 5.13 bits
4.2% →
CEASE 4.60 bits
2.9% →
ROUND 4.03 bits
2.5% →
SNARE 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1T1E1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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