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PLUMB

Yes, PLUMB was the Wordle answer on December 11, 2024 (Wordle #1271).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /plʌm//plʊm/

Noun

A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.

Noun

A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.

Adjective

Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.

Adjective

Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.

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: December 11, 2024 (#1271).

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

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How PLUMB performs as a guess

PLUMB is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.4% of games, misses completely in 35.6%, and leaves about 370 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,036 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

P__M_ P in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _L__B L in the 2nd position and B in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE RAILE SNORE MORAE IRATE TARSE
Words starting with P Words ending with B

First-turn measures

3.85 Entropy (bits)
370 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLUMB 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,036 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLUMB ranks #8,036 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
819
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
22%
All gray
36%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLUMB in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

840
267
138
127
125
112
103
81
80
36
34
30
28
27
25
25
24
18
15
14
13
13
13
9
8
8
8
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLUMB:

36% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SNORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.6% →
TIARE 6.32 bits
11.3% →
RAILE 5.32 bits
5.9% →
SNORE 5.20 bits
5.4% →
MORAE 5.36 bits
5.3% →
IRATE 5.62 bits
4.7% →
TARSE 5.53 bits
4.4% →
CRANE 5.01 bits
3.4% →
SHART 4.81 bits
3.4% →
IRATE 5.00 bits
1.5% →
SAICE 3.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1U1M3B3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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