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

MVULA

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

No dictionary definition for MVULA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use MVULA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% 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 MVULA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MVULA 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 290 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,969 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 MVULA 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.

4.05 Entropy (bits)
290 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MVULA 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,969 Rank among openers
Opening with MVULA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,969 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
781
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
21%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

MVULA can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

628 answers
432 answers
174 answers
161 answers
156 answers
81 answers
74 answers
59 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
37 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3V4U1L1A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing MVULA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MVULA:

26% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
18% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
7% chance
Suggested:
STRAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
TRINE 6.25 bits
18.1% →
TRACE 5.65 bits
7.3% →
STRAE 4.61 bits
6.8% →
STIRE 5.13 bits
6.5% →
SLIER 5.01 bits
3.4% →
TRONE 4.84 bits
3.1% →
SWIRE 4.41 bits
2.5% →
POIRE 5.13 bits
2.0% →
VISOR 4.67 bits
1.8% →
SPIER 4.36 bits

Research on MVULA

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

Optimal play

Opening with MVULA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,668 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,215 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
MVULA 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).