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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

MOURN

Yes, MOURN was the Wordle answer on March 3, 2022 (Wordle #257).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mɔɹn//mɔːn//mo(ː)ɹn/

Verb

To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

“For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”

Verb

To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.

“In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.”

Noun

Sorrow, grief.

Noun

A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Alternative forms: morne

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: March 3, 2022 (#257).

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

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How MOURN performs as a guess

MOURN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,584 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___N M in the 1st position and N in the 5th position M__R_ M in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SAICE SLICE STILE THALE CADET
Words starting with M Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.77 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MOURN 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,584 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MOURN ranks #2,584 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
987
4 guesses
1,110
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
F O R U M
M O U R N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOURN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

505
301
167
120
98
88
74
67
59
56
51
46
42
41
39
38
30
26
26
25
24
23
21
21
21
16
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14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOURN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
SLATE 6.47 bits
12.8% →
SAICE 5.41 bits
7.1% →
SLICE 5.25 bits
5.1% →
SLATE 5.24 bits
4.2% →
STILE 5.03 bits
3.7% →
THALE 4.40 bits
3.1% →
CADET 4.21 bits
2.8% →
THALE 4.82 bits
2.5% →
SLIPE 5.23 bits
2.4% →
CASTE 4.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1U1R1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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