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

NMOLI

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% 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 NMOLI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NMOLI 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,031 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 NMOLI 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.

4.51 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NMOLI 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,031 Rank among openers
Opening with NMOLI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,031 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
20
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:
ILNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
20%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

NMOLI can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

497 answers
233 answers
185 answers
161 answers
149 answers
114 answers
112 answers
83 answers
72 answers
69 answers
59 answers
45 answers
44 answers
43 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
17 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1M3O1L1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing NMOLI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NMOLI:

21% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9%
TARSE 6.45 bits
9.8%
CRATE 5.46 bits
7.8%
REAST 5.46 bits
6.8%
CARTE 5.27 bits
6.3%
REAST 5.41 bits
4.8%
PRATE 4.89 bits
4.7%
TARGE 4.77 bits
3.5%
SUCRE 4.97 bits
3.0%
TIARE 4.65 bits
2.9%
SAUTE 4.86 bits

Research on NMOLI

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

Optimal play

Opening with NMOLI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,352 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,206 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 MOHNLEE. 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.