Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

MOWRA

MOWRA is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of mahua.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use MOWRA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How MOWRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MOWRA as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,135 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe MOWRA 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MOWRA 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,135 Rank among openers
Opening with MOWRA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,135 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
277
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
23%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

MOWRA can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

456 answers
380 answers
239 answers
166 answers
130 answers
120 answers
75 answers
56 answers
53 answers
49 answers
46 answers
43 answers
38 answers
36 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3O1W4R1A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing MOWRA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MOWRA:

19% chance
Suggested:
STILE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
STILE 6.13 bits
15.9% →
SLATE 5.67 bits
10.0% →
SEINE 5.12 bits
7.0% →
CASTE 4.68 bits
5.5% →
STILE 5.09 bits
5.0% →
TUILE 4.39 bits
3.1% →
TRIDE 4.06 bits
2.3% →
TALON 4.50 bits
2.2% →
PLUME 4.76 bits
2.1% →
RANSE 3.71 bits

Research on MOWRA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MOWRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,917 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,307 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).