GUMMY
Yes, GUMMY was the Wordle answer on May 30, 2024 (Wordle #1076).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌmi/
- Adjective
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Showing the gums.
“a gummy grin”
- Noun
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Clipping of gummy shark.
- Noun
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A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.
- Adjective
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Resembling gum (the substance).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From gum (“(substance)”) + -y. The noun was influenced by gummi (from German).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
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
In a sentence
That gummy just kicked in.
Do you like gummy bears?
Use GUMMY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 72.9% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 30, 2024 (#1076).
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See what the public sample says →GUMMY in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1088
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GUMMY appeared in GUMMY BEAR DESCRIPTORS (green group).
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· Puzzle #715
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GUMMY appeared in CARD GAMES WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED (purple group).
How GUMMY performs as a guess
GUMMY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 50.3% of games, misses completely in 49.7%, 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for GUMMY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
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).
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).