STOMP
Yes, STOMP was the Wordle answer on July 28, 2022 (Wordle #404).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /stɒmp//stɑmp/
- Verb
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To trample heavily.
- Verb
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To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
- Noun
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A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp.
“She obliterated the cockroach with one stomp.”
- Noun
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Any of various dances incorporating repeated heavy, rhythmic steps.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen (“to stomp”). More at stamp.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it STAHMP.
Related meanings
In a sentence
I'll stomp you into the ground.
Tom tried to stomp out the fire.
Use STOMP in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 28, 2022 (#404).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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STOMP appeared in WALK HEAVILY (yellow group).
How STOMP performs as a guess
STOMP 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 74.4% of games, misses completely in 25.6%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,777 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe STOMP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How STOMP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches STOMP in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
STOMP can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for STOMP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing STOMP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STOMP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STOMP:
Research on STOMP
Game-tree analysis and word research for STOMP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with STOMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,160 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #777 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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
- STOMP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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).