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

MUNTS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of munt

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

Use MUNTS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% 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 MUNTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUNTS 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,441 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe MUNTS 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)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MUNTS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,441 Rank among openers
Opening with MUNTS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,441 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
23%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

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

606 answers
211 answers
210 answers
190 answers
109 answers
79 answers
74 answers
70 answers
68 answers
65 answers
55 answers
52 answers
48 answers
38 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1N1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing MUNTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUNTS:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
9% chance
Suggested:
PARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
RAILE 6.19 bits
8.9% →
TREAT 5.55 bits
8.8% →
PARLE 5.69 bits
8.0% →
ARIEL 5.58 bits
4.6% →
ARISE 4.92 bits
3.3% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
3.1% →
CADIE 4.83 bits
2.9% →
RAILE 4.65 bits
2.9% →
FAIRE 4.66 bits
2.7% →
GLACE 5.04 bits

Research on MUNTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with MUNTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,726 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 MUNTS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).