LYMPH
LYMPH is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /lɪmf/[lɪmpf]
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A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.
- Noun
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The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
Alternative forms: lymphe
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it LIHMF.
Rhymes with NYMPH
In a sentence
You have a cold and your lymph nodes are swollen.
Use LYMPH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% 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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →How LYMPH performs as a guess
LYMPH 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 67.1% of games, misses completely in 32.9%, and leaves about 354 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,488 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe LYMPH 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 LYMPH 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 LYMPH in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
LYMPH can come back 75 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 LYMPH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing LYMPH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LYMPH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing LYMPH:
Research on LYMPH
Game-tree analysis and word research for LYMPH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with LYMPH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,084 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with LYMPH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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
- LYMPH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).