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DUMMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 74.5% 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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 52.0% of games, misses completely in 48.0%, and leaves about 601 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,056 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

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

Try next

TIARE SORAL STONE ARIEL SOARE LATER
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.17 Entropy (bits)
601 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
74.5% 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 opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,056 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DUMMY 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 (3.45 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

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1133
206
190
153
110
91
58
40
35
35
34
29
26
20
18
17
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10
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4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUMMY:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.0% →
TIARE 6.20 bits
8.7% →
SORAL 4.83 bits
8.1% →
STONE 5.27 bits
6.5% →
ARIEL 5.72 bits
4.7% →
SOARE 5.52 bits
3.9% →
LATER 4.77 bits
2.5% →
TOILE 4.97 bits
1.7% →
SLART 3.29 bits
1.5% →
CRISE 4.48 bits
1.5% →
CADRE 3.70 bits

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.