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STAMP

Yes, STAMP was the Wordle answer on March 16, 2025 (Wordle #1366).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stæmp/

Noun

An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.

“The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs.”

Noun

An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.

“My passport has quite a collection of stamps.”

Verb

To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

“The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy.”

Verb

To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

“The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.”

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

Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Stamps, habitational surname of Norman origin from Estampes, earlier name of Étampes.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it STAMP.

Rhymes with CHAMP CLAMP TRAMP CRAMP

Related meanings

Synonyms cast boss impression seal tender mold

In a sentence

I do not have a stamp.
© tatoeba.org contributor kulupuJeti (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I need to get a stamp.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use STAMP in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% 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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 16, 2025 (#1366).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 16, 2025 (#1366).

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STAMP in Connections

8 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How STAMP performs as a guess

STAMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,487 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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First-turn measures

All four describe STAMP 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How STAMP 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#1,487 Rank among openers
Opening with STAMP solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,487 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
151
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
29%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S H A F T
S T A M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches STAMP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

STAMP can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

545 answers
254 answers
223 answers
112 answers
111 answers
106 answers
83 answers
76 answers
70 answers
57 answers
45 answers
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13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1M3P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing STAMP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STAMP:

23% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
RIONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
DROLE 6.09 bits
10.7% →
CARLE 5.43 bits
9.4% →
RIONE 5.43 bits
4.7% →
TAROT 4.52 bits
4.7% →
CLINE 5.02 bits
4.4% →
DRICE 4.92 bits
3.5% →
RIONE 5.18 bits
3.2% →
ROUSE 5.15 bits
2.9% →
LOURE 4.99 bits
2.4% →
MORNE 4.64 bits

Research on STAMP

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

Optimal play

Opening with STAMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,855 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #569 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
STAMP sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 91 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).