5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

MOTON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A small plate covering the armpit in armour of the 14th century and later.

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 MOTON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOTON 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 69.0% of games, misses completely in 31.0%, and leaves about 313 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,181 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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

RAILE REAST SAICE SACRE CARLE PLACE
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.09 Entropy (bits)
313 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOTON 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,181 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOTON ranks #8,181 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
802
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
17

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

731
308
215
117
113
104
70
65
55
49
44
36
35
31
30
23
21
20
17
15
15
15
13
11
11
9
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOTON:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.0% →
RAILE 6.23 bits
13.1% →
REAST 5.68 bits
9.1% →
SAICE 5.38 bits
5.0% →
SACRE 5.15 bits
4.8% →
CARLE 4.89 bits
4.4% →
PLACE 5.29 bits
3.0% →
GAUNT 4.54 bits
2.8% →
CARPE 4.50 bits
2.3% →
ARIEL 4.77 bits
2.1% →
SUCRE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1T1O1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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