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

AMPED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /æmpt/

Verb

simple past and past participle of amp

Adjective

Activated, as with electric power.

Adjective

Excited or full of energy, especially to excess.

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 AMPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMPED 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 183 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,679 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

A___D A in the 1st position and D in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _M__D M in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AMPED 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
183 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMPED 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,679 Rank among openers
Opening with AMPED left 1 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,679 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
15
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

AMPED can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

432 answers
296 answers
270 answers
160 answers
149 answers
76 answers
67 answers
61 answers
60 answers
58 answers
54 answers
49 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3P3E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

HOIST SLART RONTE SENOR POINT MOUTH

Strategy after playing AMPED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMPED:

18% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
HOIST 5.86 bits
12.5% →
SLART 5.30 bits
11.4% →
RONTE 5.15 bits
6.7% →
SLART 5.27 bits
6.3% →
SENOR 4.47 bits
3.2% →
POINT 4.92 bits
2.8% →
MOUTH 4.70 bits
2.6% →
DIRGE 4.32 bits
2.5% →
PRISE 4.56 bits
2.4% →
DONUT 4.64 bits

Research on AMPED

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMPED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,331 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with AMPED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

One syllable Say it AMPT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMPED sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (1.9 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).