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FOAMY

Yes, FOAMY was the Wordle answer on April 5, 2025 (Wordle #1386).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊmi//ˈfoʊmi/

Adjective

Full of foam.

“He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.”

Noun

Alternative spelling of foamie.

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 5, 2025 (#1386).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 5, 2025 (#1386).

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

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How FOAMY performs as a guess

FOAMY 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,873 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___Y F in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position F__M_ F in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FOAMY 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
232 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FOAMY 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,873 Rank among openers
Opening with FOAMY 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 3.74 average. It ranks #8,873 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
12
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:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
42%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L O A M Y
F O A M Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FOAMY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

555 answers
294 answers
219 answers
215 answers
134 answers
121 answers
83 answers
77 answers
50 answers
49 answers
49 answers
47 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1A1M3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TRINE TALER STIRE CRUET SIDLE SATED

Strategy after playing FOAMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FOAMY:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
TRINE 6.12 bits
12.4% →
TALER 5.62 bits
9.2% →
STIRE 5.13 bits
9.1% →
STIRE 5.04 bits
5.6% →
CRUET 4.87 bits
5.1% →
SIDLE 4.64 bits
3.5% →
SATED 3.88 bits
3.2% →
ACTOR 4.40 bits
2.1% →
SIREN 5.07 bits
2.1% →
CARTE 4.38 bits

Research on FOAMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FOAMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,303 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,568 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FOHMEE.

Rhymes with HOMEY LOAMY

Related meanings

Synonyms bubbling bubbly unhealthy

Opposites healthy

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FOAMY 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 (4.2 of 5).

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).