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MURAL

Yes, MURAL was the Wordle answer on January 1, 2024 (Wordle #926).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈmjʊɹəl//ˈmjɝəl//ˈmjʊəɹəl/

Noun

A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.

Adjective

Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.

“a mural quadrant”

Adjective

Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.

“a mural precipice”

Verb

To create a mural.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 1, 2024 (#926).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 1, 2024 (#926).

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

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How MURAL performs as a guess

MURAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,709 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___L M in the 1st position and L in the 5th position M__A_ M in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__L U in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe MURAL 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MURAL 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,709 Rank among openers
Opening with MURAL left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,709 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
16
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:
ALRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y
M U R A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MURAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

MURAL can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

362 answers
254 answers
230 answers
163 answers
159 answers
127 answers
85 answers
69 answers
63 answers
54 answers
43 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1R1A1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SIENT TOISE CASTE STANE STILE STALE

Strategy after playing MURAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MURAL:

15% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
11% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
CASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
SIENT 6.22 bits
10.7% →
TOISE 5.23 bits
9.7% →
CASTE 5.29 bits
6.9% →
STANE 4.60 bits
6.7% →
STILE 5.07 bits
5.3% →
STALE 4.82 bits
3.6% →
STONE 5.15 bits
2.9% →
SIENT 4.48 bits
2.7% →
SHOTE 4.78 bits
2.3% →
SCOTE 4.73 bits

Research on MURAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with MURAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,918 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,083 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, 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 MYUURUHL.

Rhymes with RURAL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, MURAL is a kind of picture.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MURAL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 67 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.6 of 5).

In a sentence

Have you seen the mural?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom is painting a mural.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).