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Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

DUMPY

DUMPY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdʌmpi/

Adjective

Short and thick; stout or stocky.

Noun

A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens.

Noun

A small bottle of beer.

Adjective

Of or relating to a garbage dump; rubbishy.

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

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 DUMPY performs as a guess

DUMPY 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 59.7% of games, misses completely in 40.3%, and leaves about 439 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,321 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__P_ D in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE TALER STONE RAISE ARIEL SOARE
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.73 Entropy (bits)
439 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DUMPY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,321 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DUMPY ranks #8,321 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
27%
All gray
40%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DUMPY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

950
164
164
162
135
126
78
54
34
34
33
28
26
25
24
23
23
21
21
19
16
15
13
12
11
11
9
9
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUMPY:

40% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.3% →
TIARE 6.24 bits
7.0% →
TALER 4.85 bits
7.0% →
STONE 5.24 bits
6.9% →
RAISE 5.59 bits
5.7% →
ARIEL 5.65 bits
5.3% →
SOARE 5.54 bits
3.3% →
TARGE 4.86 bits
2.3% →
TOILE 5.00 bits
1.4% →
SLART 3.39 bits
1.4% →
RAILE 3.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2U1M3P3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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