5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

MUNCH

Yes, MUNCH was the Wordle answer on June 18, 2025 (Wordle #1460).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /mʌntʃ/

Verb

To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.

“Jim was munching on a biscotti.”

Verb

To eat vigorously or with excitement.

“Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!”

Noun

A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.

“Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!”

Noun

An act of eating.

“We had a good munch at the chippy.”

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: June 18, 2025 (#1460).

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

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How MUNCH performs as a guess

MUNCH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.4% of games, misses completely in 34.6%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,254 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

M___H M in the 1st position and H in the 5th position M__C_ M in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__H U in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE ARIEL CATER TARSE STURE TALER
Words starting with M Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.10 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MUNCH 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,254 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MUNCH ranks #6,254 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
24%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
H U M P H
M U N C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches MUNCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

817
247
130
128
103
101
96
63
58
52
52
44
31
30
30
25
23
19
18
14
14
12
12
12
12
11
9
8
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MUNCH:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
6% chance
Suggested:
CATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.6% →
RAILE 6.18 bits
10.5% →
ARIEL 5.56 bits
5.5% →
CATER 5.47 bits
5.4% →
TARSE 5.64 bits
4.4% →
STURE 5.47 bits
4.3% →
TALER 4.70 bits
4.1% →
ALOSE 5.39 bits
2.7% →
SAGER 4.57 bits
2.5% →
STURE 3.95 bits
2.2% →
TIARE 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3U1N1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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