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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

MUMPS

MUMPS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 77.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mʌmps/

Noun

A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of mump

Noun

plural of mump

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How MUMPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MUMPS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 56.0% of games, misses completely in 44.0%, and leaves about 536 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,343 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

M___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__P_ M in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL TIARE TRONE LATER STALE CARTE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.26 Entropy (bits)
536 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUMPS 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,343 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUMPS ranks #13,343 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
680
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
367
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
17%
All gray
44%

Feedback distribution

55 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1037
339
139
138
106
80
69
62
61
31
26
26
25
22
16
15
12
11
10
10
9
9
9
9
9
7
7
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUMPS:

44% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
6% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.0% →
ARIEL 6.07 bits
14.4% →
TIARE 5.68 bits
5.9% →
TRONE 5.37 bits
5.8% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
4.5% →
LATER 4.58 bits
3.4% →
STALE 4.79 bits
2.9% →
CARTE 5.04 bits
2.6% →
GRAME 5.27 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.33 bits
1.3% →
SALET 3.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1M3P3S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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