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GUMMY

Yes, GUMMY was the Wordle answer on May 30, 2024 (Wordle #1076).

As an opener, it rules out about 72.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌmi/

Adjective

Showing the gums.

“a gummy grin”

Noun

Clipping of gummy shark.

Noun

A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.

Adjective

Resembling gum (the substance).

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: May 30, 2024 (#1076).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 30, 2024 (#1076).

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

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How GUMMY performs as a guess

GUMMY 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 50.2% of games, misses completely in 49.8%, and leaves about 646 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,277 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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.

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__M_ G 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 GUMMY.

First-turn measures

All four describe GUMMY 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.

3.08 Entropy (bits)
646 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
72.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUMMY 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,277 Rank among openers
Opening with GUMMY left 1 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 3.93 average. It ranks #14,277 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
602
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
432
6 guesses
29
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)
50%
Green tile
28%
All gray
50%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches GUMMY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

1182 answers
240 answers
195 answers
111 answers
108 answers
82 answers
62 answers
41 answers
34 answers
32 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1M3M3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

TIARE TALER STONE LEANT SOARE TRACE

Strategy after playing GUMMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUMMY:

50% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

49.8% →
TIARE 6.19 bits
10.1% →
TALER 4.80 bits
8.2% →
STONE 5.31 bits
4.7% →
LEANT 5.26 bits
4.5% →
SOARE 5.49 bits
3.5% →
TRACE 4.84 bits
2.6% →
IRADE 5.01 bits
1.7% →
SLART 3.33 bits
1.4% →
LAYER 4.59 bits
1.3% →
CRATE 4.39 bits

Research on GUMMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GUMMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,222 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.07 guesses at best and is rank #6,940 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, at or below the proven-optimal 3.93, 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 GUHMEE.

Rhymes with DUMMY MUMMY YUMMY TUMMY RUMMY

Related meanings

Synonyms sticky adhesive

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GUMMY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 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 (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

That gummy just kicked in.
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you like gummy bears?
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).