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MOUND

MOUND is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /maʊnd/

Noun

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

Noun

A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

Verb

To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.

Verb

To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

“He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.”

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

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 MOUND performs as a guess

MOUND 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 69.7% of games, misses completely in 30.3%, and leaves about 273 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,965 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___D M in the 1st position and D in the 5th position M__N_ M in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SALET LINER SILER TALER RAILE
Words starting with M Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.39 Entropy (bits)
273 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOUND 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,965 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOUND ranks #3,965 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
12
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:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
30%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B L I M P
M O U N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOUND in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

714
175
153
127
127
105
86
81
65
60
53
37
35
31
31
30
27
26
23
22
22
20
19
17
16
14
13
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOUND:

30% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SALET
6% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.3% →
TARSE 6.43 bits
7.4% →
SALET 5.27 bits
6.5% →
LINER 5.23 bits
5.4% →
SILER 5.03 bits
5.4% →
TALER 4.67 bits
4.5% →
RAILE 5.43 bits
3.6% →
PRASE 5.34 bits
3.4% →
LEAST 4.81 bits
2.8% →
SALET 5.08 bits
2.5% →
ARSON 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1U1N1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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