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DUMMY

Yes, DUMMY was the Wordle answer on April 28, 2025 (Wordle #1409).

As an opener, it rules out about 74.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdʌmi/

Noun

A stupid person.

“Don't be such a dummy!”

Noun

A term of address.

“Hey dummy, what's good wit chu?”

Verb

To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

“The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.”

Verb

To feint.

Alternative forms: dumbie, dumby, dummie

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: April 28, 2025 (#1409).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 28, 2025 (#1409).

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

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How DUMMY performs as a guess

DUMMY 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 51.9% of games, misses completely in 48.1%, and leaves about 608 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,056 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

D___Y D in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position D__M_ D in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DUMMY 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.

3.17 Entropy (bits)
608 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
74.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DUMMY 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,056 Rank among openers
Opening with DUMMY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,056 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
617
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
420
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
28%
All gray
48%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B U D G E
D U M M Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DUMMY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DUMMY can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1143 answers
207 answers
191 answers
154 answers
110 answers
91 answers
58 answers
41 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
29 answers
26 answers
21 answers
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17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2U1M3M3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TIARE SALET STONE ARIEL SOARE LATER

Strategy after playing DUMMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUMMY:

48% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.1% →
TIARE 6.19 bits
8.7% →
SALET 4.86 bits
8.0% →
STONE 5.27 bits
6.5% →
ARIEL 5.71 bits
4.6% →
SOARE 5.52 bits
3.8% →
LATER 4.77 bits
2.4% →
TOILE 4.97 bits
1.7% →
SLART 3.31 bits
1.5% →
CRISE 4.48 bits
1.5% →
CADRE 3.70 bits

Research on DUMMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DUMMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,700 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 DUMMY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90; proven optimal play reaches 3.89. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 DUHMEE.

Rhymes with MUMMY YUMMY TUMMY GUMMY RUMMY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DUMMY is a kind of mute or simple.

Synonyms BLANK dope boob artificial unreal

Opposites natural

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DUMMY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 77 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

In a sentence

What a dummy you are!
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I thought you were a dummy.
© tatoeba.org contributor JFMorais (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).