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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

MOULY

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

No dictionary definition for MOULY is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 MOULY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOULY 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 241 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,208 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___Y M in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in MOULY.

First-turn measures

All four describe MOULY 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
241 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOULY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,208 Rank among openers
Opening with MOULY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,208 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
868
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
36%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MOULY can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

624 answers
247 answers
217 answers
147 answers
117 answers
99 answers
70 answers
65 answers
64 answers
57 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
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29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1U1L1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRACE RAISE TRONE TARSE RANSE RANCE

Strategy after playing MOULY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MOULY.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOULY:

26% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
TRACE 6.34 bits
10.4% →
RAISE 5.33 bits
9.1% →
TRONE 5.35 bits
6.2% →
TARSE 4.92 bits
4.9% →
RANSE 5.14 bits
4.2% →
RANCE 4.77 bits
2.9% →
STANE 4.76 bits
2.7% →
AROSE 4.09 bits
2.7% →
CARSE 5.06 bits
2.4% →
SADHE 4.48 bits

Research on MOULY

Game-tree analysis and word research for MOULY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with MOULY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,147 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,565 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MOHLEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOULY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).