MOUTH
Yes, MOUTH was the Wordle answer on September 23, 2025 (Wordle #1557).
As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /maʊθ//mʌʊθ/[məʊθ]
- Noun
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The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
“"Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.”
- Noun
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The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
“The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.”
- Verb
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To speak; to utter.
“He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.”
- Verb
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To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
“The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.”
Alternative forms: mouthe
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 23, 2025 (#1557).
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MOUTH 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,765 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe MOUTH 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How MOUTH 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches MOUTH in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
MOUTH can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for MOUTH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing MOUTH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to MOUTH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing MOUTH:
Research on MOUTH
Game-tree analysis and word research for MOUTH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with MOUTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,028 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,770 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, MOUTH is a kind of opening or passage.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- MOUTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 68 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 95 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
In a sentence
Get that out of your mouth.
We have one mouth only.
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).