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MOULT

Yes, MOULT was the Wordle answer on September 26, 2021 (Wordle #99).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /moʊlt//mɒlt//məʊlt/

Noun

The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

“Some birds change colour during their winter moult.”

Noun

The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.

Verb

To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.

Verb

To shed in such a manner.

Alternative forms: molt

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: September 26, 2021 (#99).

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

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How MOULT performs as a guess

MOULT 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 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,915 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___T M in the 1st position and T in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE TARTE CRANE SIREN ARISE RANSE
Words starting with M Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOULT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,915 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOULT ranks #1,915 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,100
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
18
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:
LOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
35%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C U M I N
M O U L T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOULT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

498
210
189
169
113
99
97
72
58
55
43
39
35
33
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28
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOULT:

21% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
RAISE 6.03 bits
8.9% →
RAISE 5.34 bits
8.0% →
TARTE 5.65 bits
7.2% →
CRANE 5.53 bits
4.8% →
SIREN 5.05 bits
4.2% →
ARISE 5.20 bits
4.1% →
RANSE 4.60 bits
3.1% →
RAISE 4.65 bits
2.5% →
PRASE 5.10 bits
2.3% →
SLANE 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1U1L1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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