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

MVULI

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 MVULI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MVULI 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 326 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,477 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe MVULI 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.

3.86 Entropy (bits)
326 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How MVULI 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#9,477 Rank among openers
Opening with MVULI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,477 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
773
4 guesses
1,297
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
13
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:
ILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
19%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

MVULI can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

723 answers
354 answers
248 answers
147 answers
98 answers
88 answers
79 answers
78 answers
50 answers
48 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3V4U1L1I1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing MVULI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MVULI:

30% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5%
TARSE 6.38 bits
14.9%
TRINE 5.58 bits
10.4%
REAST 5.39 bits
6.2%
SENOR 5.12 bits
4.1%
SHART 4.90 bits
3.7%
SLATE 4.61 bits
3.3%
AROSE 5.12 bits
3.3%
SADHE 4.72 bits
2.1%
SENOR 4.69 bits
2.0%
COREY 4.76 bits

Research on MVULI

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

Optimal play

Opening with MVULI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,592 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,745 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it VUHLOOIH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.