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

MULLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mull

Noun

plural of mull

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 MULLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MULLS 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 65.3% of games, misses completely in 34.7%, and leaves about 377 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,337 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__L_ M in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MULLS 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.

3.80 Entropy (bits)
377 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MULLS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,337 Rank among openers
Opening with MULLS left 3 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,337 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
793
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
23%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

MULLS can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

823 answers
332 answers
244 answers
111 answers
88 answers
83 answers
66 answers
61 answers
51 answers
51 answers
44 answers
34 answers
30 answers
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18 answers
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12 answers
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11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1L1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TIARE TRONE CARTE ROATE NOIRE SAUNT

Strategy after playing MULLS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MULLS:

35% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.7% →
TIARE 6.21 bits
14.0% →
TIARE 5.75 bits
10.3% →
TIARE 5.36 bits
4.7% →
TRONE 5.40 bits
3.7% →
CARTE 4.54 bits
3.5% →
ROATE 5.27 bits
2.8% →
NOIRE 4.92 bits
2.6% →
SAUNT 4.43 bits
2.1% →
WAITE 4.74 bits
2.1% →
SLATE 4.51 bits

Research on MULLS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MULLS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,592 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 MULLS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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

One syllable Say it MUHLZ.

Rhymes with GULLS HULLS LULLS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MULLS is a kind of head or think.

Synonyms reflect muse speculate contemplate ponder meditate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MULLS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (2.1 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).