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

RUMPO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Sexual intercourse.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use RUMPO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

How RUMPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUMPO 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,326 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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First-turn measures

All four describe RUMPO 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
249 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUMPO 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,326 Rank among openers
Opening with RUMPO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,326 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
17%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

RUMPO can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

595 answers
324 answers
241 answers
153 answers
109 answers
103 answers
88 answers
78 answers
49 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
37 answers
34 answers
32 answers
27 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1M3P3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing RUMPO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUMPO:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
SLATE 6.32 bits
13.6% →
IRATE 5.28 bits
10.1% →
SLANE 5.27 bits
6.4% →
ATONE 4.54 bits
4.6% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
4.3% →
STANE 5.16 bits
3.7% →
STILE 4.74 bits
3.3% →
LIANE 5.29 bits
2.1% →
LEANT 4.42 bits
2.0% →
PEASE 4.54 bits

Research on RUMPO

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUMPO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,312 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,041 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).