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

MUNJA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The Indian grass Tripidium bengalense.

Alternative forms: moonj, moonja, moonjah, munj

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

Use MUNJA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% 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 MUNJA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUNJA 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 71.7% of games, misses completely in 28.3%, and leaves about 352 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,491 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe MUNJA 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.

3.68 Entropy (bits)
352 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUNJA 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,491 Rank among openers
Opening with MUNJA left 1 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,491 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
625
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
351
6 guesses
26

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
19%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

MUNJA can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

674 answers
532 answers
186 answers
130 answers
128 answers
110 answers
68 answers
61 answers
60 answers
53 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
22 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1N1J8A1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing MUNJA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUNJA:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
22% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.3% →
SOLER 5.96 bits
22.3% →
TARSE 5.62 bits
7.8% →
SLIER 5.10 bits
5.5% →
STORE 5.42 bits
5.4% →
SLIER 4.63 bits
4.6% →
STIRE 4.76 bits
2.9% →
POIRE 5.04 bits
2.6% →
CORSE 4.29 bits
2.5% →
STONE 3.95 bits
2.2% →
PRASE 4.60 bits

Research on MUNJA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUNJA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,880 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,768 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87; proven optimal play reaches 3.86. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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).