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FLUME

Yes, FLUME has been the Wordle answer on August 26, 2021 (Wordle #68) and July 30, 2026 (Wordle #1867).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fluːm/

Noun

A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.

Noun

An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch.

Verb

To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

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 2 times

Past Wordle answer: August 26, 2021 (#68); July 30, 2026 (#1867).

See the full page for each puzzle: August 26, 2021 (#68); July 30, 2026 (#1867).

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

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How FLUME performs as a guess

FLUME 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,042 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

F___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__M_ F in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FLUME 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FLUME 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,042 Rank among openers
Opening with FLUME 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 3.70 average. It ranks #7,042 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
820
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
F L U M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FLUME in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FLUME can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

517 answers
329 answers
216 answers
166 answers
109 answers
102 answers
75 answers
70 answers
62 answers
50 answers
43 answers
40 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4L1U1M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TRAIN SONAR ROAST LOYAL PENAL SNARY

Strategy after playing FLUME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FLUME:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
TRAIN 6.15 bits
13.9% →
SONAR 5.22 bits
9.1% →
ROAST 5.11 bits
7.0% →
LOYAL 5.10 bits
4.6% →
PENAL 4.39 bits
4.3% →
SNARY 4.62 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 5.00 bits
2.9% →
SHART 4.61 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.63 bits
2.1% →
OATER 4.56 bits

Research on FLUME

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

Optimal play

Opening with FLUME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,126 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,798 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 FLOOM.

Rhymes with BLOOM GROOM BROOM GLOOM PLUME

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FLUME is a kind of gorge or waterway.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FLUME 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.

In a sentence

He rode the log flume at the amusement park.
© tatoeba.org contributor mccarras (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Benedito and his friends will ride the log flume.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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).