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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

RUMBO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A type of punch made chiefly from rum; grog.

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 RUMBO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUMBO 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 274 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,142 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___O R in the 1st position and O in the 5th position R__B_ R in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in RUMBO.

First-turn measures

All four describe RUMBO 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.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
274 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUMBO 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,142 Rank among openers
Opening with RUMBO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,142 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
834
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
16%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

RUMBO can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

635 answers
339 answers
245 answers
155 answers
106 answers
86 answers
83 answers
79 answers
52 answers
43 answers
43 answers
37 answers
37 answers
35 answers
30 answers
27 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1M3B3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLATE SATED SLANE STONE STANE LIANE

Strategy after playing RUMBO

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to RUMBO.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUMBO:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SATED
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
SLATE 6.34 bits
14.3% →
SATED 5.42 bits
10.3% →
SLANE 5.21 bits
6.5% →
STONE 4.61 bits
4.5% →
STANE 5.12 bits
3.6% →
LIANE 5.26 bits
3.5% →
STILE 4.68 bits
3.3% →
SLATE 5.02 bits
2.2% →
LEANY 4.46 bits
1.8% →
SONCE 4.08 bits

Research on RUMBO

Game-tree analysis and word research for RUMBO, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with RUMBO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,370 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,938 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it RUHMBOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RUMBO sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).