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CHUMP

Yes, CHUMP was the Wordle answer on March 29, 2026 (Wordle #1744).

As an opener, it rules out about 82.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌmp/

Noun

An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

“That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.”

Noun

A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

“It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.”

Verb

To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).

Verb

Dated form of chomp.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 29, 2026 (#1744).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 29, 2026 (#1744).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How CHUMP performs as a guess

CHUMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 60.4% of games, misses completely in 39.6%, and leaves about 427 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,910 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

C___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__P H in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHUMP 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.

3.83 Entropy (bits)
427 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
82.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHUMP 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,910 Rank among openers
Opening with CHUMP left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,910 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
22%
All gray
40%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H U M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHUMP in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHUMP can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

941 answers
180 answers
163 answers
129 answers
109 answers
105 answers
98 answers
81 answers
78 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4U1M3P3
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

ARIEL RAISE SNARE ROATE TIARE IRONE

Strategy after playing CHUMP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHUMP:

40% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
SNARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.6% →
ARIEL 6.16 bits
7.6% →
RAISE 5.73 bits
6.9% →
SNARE 5.09 bits
5.4% →
ROATE 5.42 bits
4.6% →
TIARE 5.38 bits
4.4% →
ROATE 5.55 bits
4.1% →
IRONE 5.06 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.90 bits
3.3% →
STRAE 5.13 bits
1.4% →
LATER 4.15 bits

Research on CHUMP

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHUMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,198 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,332 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 CHUHMP.

Rhymes with TRUMP STUMP SLUMP PLUMP THUMP

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHUMP is a kind of victim.

Synonyms mark fool mug sucker PATSY gull

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHUMP 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 sight (2.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Don't be such a chump!
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom may think he's a champ, but in actuality he's but a chump.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ooneykcall (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).