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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

MOUNT

Yes, MOUNT was the Wordle answer on January 27, 2022 (Wordle #222).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /maʊnt/[maʊnt][maʊnʔ]

Noun

A hill or mountain.

Noun

Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.

“the mount of Jupiter”

Verb

To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

“to mount stairs”

Verb

To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

“The rider mounted his horse.”

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: January 27, 2022 (#222).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 27, 2022 (#222).

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

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How MOUNT performs as a guess

MOUNT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.0% of games, misses completely in 24.0%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,709 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___T M in the 1st position and T in the 5th position M__N_ M in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOUNT 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.

4.75 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOUNT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,709 Rank among openers
Opening with MOUNT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,709 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
966
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
34%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOUNT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MOUNT can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

569 answers
200 answers
154 answers
152 answers
114 answers
110 answers
107 answers
76 answers
64 answers
57 answers
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32 answers
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28 answers
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16 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1U1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RAILE TARTE SACRE SILER PARLE SERAL

Strategy after playing MOUNT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOUNT:

24% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
6% chance
Suggested:
SACRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.0% →
RAILE 6.17 bits
8.4% →
TARTE 5.68 bits
6.5% →
SACRE 5.14 bits
6.4% →
RAILE 5.27 bits
4.8% →
SILER 4.89 bits
4.6% →
PARLE 4.60 bits
4.5% →
SERAL 5.28 bits
3.2% →
PRASE 5.40 bits
2.7% →
GLARE 4.47 bits
2.4% →
ARSON 4.45 bits

Research on MOUNT

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOUNT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,073 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with MOUNT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

One syllable Say it MOWNT.

Rhymes with COUNT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MOUNT is a kind of horse or rise.

Synonyms ride rise setting mountain backing CLIMB

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOUNT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 30 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 55 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom tried to mount the horse.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
She is going to Mount Tate.
© tatoeba.org contributor CN (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).