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MOVER

Yes, MOVER was the Wordle answer on May 16, 2026 (Wordle #1792).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmuːvə/

Noun

Someone who or something that moves.

Noun

A dancer.

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: May 16, 2026 (#1792).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 16, 2026 (#1792).

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

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How MOVER performs as a guess

MOVER 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,698 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___R M in the 1st position and R in the 5th position M__E_ M in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position MO_ER M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOVER 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.

4.61 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOVER 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,698 Rank among openers
Opening with MOVER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,698 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
837
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
240
6 guesses
15
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M O C K
M O V E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOVER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MOVER can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

451 answers
341 answers
195 answers
150 answers
135 answers
114 answers
91 answers
84 answers
80 answers
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38 answers
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29 answers
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24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
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16 answers
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14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1V4E1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLATE IRATE SLANT SALTY SLUMP

Strategy after playing MOVER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOVER:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
SAINT 6.10 bits
14.4% →
SLATE 5.67 bits
8.2% →
SAINT 5.36 bits
6.3% →
IRATE 4.64 bits
5.7% →
SLANT 5.28 bits
4.8% →
SALTY 4.43 bits
3.8% →
SAINT 3.79 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.91 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.04 bits
2.5% →
SLUMP 4.83 bits

Research on MOVER

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,559 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 MOVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, 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 MOOVUR.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MOVER is a kind of employee or mastermind.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOVER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).