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

MUDAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any shrub of two species of milkweed-like shrubs, which yield a strong fibre and an acrid milky juice used medicinally:

Alternative forms: madar

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

No

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

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How MUDAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUDAR 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,132 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.
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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__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MUDAR 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUDAR 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,132 Rank among openers
Opening with MUDAR solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,132 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
939
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
13
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:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
27%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

MUDAR can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

463 answers
325 answers
213 answers
140 answers
98 answers
82 answers
81 answers
78 answers
70 answers
51 answers
51 answers
50 answers
45 answers
41 answers
39 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1D2A1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE SLATE TOISE TRACE STONE VISOR

Strategy after playing MUDAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUDAR:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
13.7% →
SLATE 5.64 bits
9.0% →
TOISE 5.51 bits
5.9% →
TRACE 4.77 bits
4.1% →
STONE 5.17 bits
3.5% →
VISOR 3.72 bits
3.4% →
TOILE 5.19 bits
3.3% →
STILE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
CLOTE 4.59 bits
2.1% →
TOUSE 4.65 bits

Research on MUDAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUDAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,901 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 MUDAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 MYOODUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MUDAR sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).