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MOVIE

Yes, MOVIE was the Wordle answer on March 17, 2022 (Wordle #271).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmuːvi/

Noun

A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film; a video.

Noun

A professionally made motion picture of a substantive narrative work, typically around 1 to 3 hours long, typically intended for cinema, art, entertainment, and a widespread audience; a feature film, theatrical film.

“My favorite actor is starring in the new movie.”

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 17, 2022 (#271).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 17, 2022 (#271).

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

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How MOVIE performs as a guess

MOVIE 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,657 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___E M in the 1st position and E in the 5th position M__I_ M in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position MO_IE M in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MOVIE 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOVIE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,657 Rank among openers
Opening with MOVIE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,657 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
799
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
262
6 guesses
14
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
M O V I E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MOVIE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MOVIE can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

379 answers
355 answers
210 answers
189 answers
170 answers
136 answers
82 answers
80 answers
73 answers
56 answers
51 answers
38 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1V4I1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLANT ALTER ARSON SLART SALTY DINER

Strategy after playing MOVIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOVIE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SLANT 5.99 bits
15.0% →
ALTER 5.37 bits
8.8% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
8.0% →
ARSON 5.05 bits
7.2% →
SLART 5.25 bits
5.7% →
SALTY 4.45 bits
3.5% →
DINER 4.82 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.07 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.95 bits
2.4% →
CLAMP 4.74 bits

Research on MOVIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOVIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,129 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,411 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 MOOVEE.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MOVIE is a kind of production.

Synonyms film picture pic FLICK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MOVIE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 145 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 73 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

In a sentence

He was in that movie.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What is the movie about?
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (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).