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

MURTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A sacred image of a deity.

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 MURTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MURTI 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,071 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 MURTI 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MURTI 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,071 Rank among openers
Opening with MURTI left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,071 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
195
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:
IRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

MURTI can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

449 answers
281 answers
233 answers
165 answers
116 answers
98 answers
93 answers
83 answers
67 answers
59 answers
58 answers
53 answers
43 answers
41 answers
34 answers
34 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1R1T1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing MURTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MURTI:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9%
SLANE 6.25 bits
11.8%
CANOE 5.14 bits
9.8%
SLANE 5.47 bits
7.0%
SALET 5.55 bits
4.9%
DRIER 4.57 bits
4.1%
SIENT 4.52 bits
3.9%
SLANE 5.06 bits
3.5%
CAESE 4.73 bits
2.8%
SAYNE 4.63 bits
2.5%
SADLY 4.12 bits

Research on MURTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with MURTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,134 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,954 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 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it MURTEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MURTI 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).