STUFF
Yes, STUFF was the Wordle answer on May 27, 2026 (Wordle #1803).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /stʌf//stɐf//stʊf/
- Noun
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Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
“What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor? He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.”
- Noun
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Unspecified things or matters.
“I had to do some stuff.”
- Verb
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To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
“I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.”
- Verb
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To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
“He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English stuf, stuffe, from Anglo-Latin stuffa and its etymon Old French estofe, estoffe, estuf, estuffe, stoffe, from estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it STUHF.
Rhymes with TOUGH ROUGH BLUFF FLUFF SNUFF
Related meanings
Synonyms material BLOCK squeeze thrust SHOVE BINGE
In a sentence
I have stuff to do.
Is this all your stuff?
Use STUFF in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 81.2% 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: May 27, 2026 (#1803).
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See what the public sample says →STUFF in Connections
5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #853
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STUFF appeared in EQUIPMENT (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #829
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STUFF appeared in CRAM (blue group).
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· Puzzle #423
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STUFF appeared in CRAM (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #244
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STUFF appeared in CRAM INTO A TIGHT SPACE (green group).
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· Puzzle #170
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STUFF appeared in FILL TO EXCESS (blue group).
How STUFF performs as a guess
STUFF 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 61.1% of games, misses completely in 38.9%, and leaves about 448 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,538 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe STUFF 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 STUFF 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 STUFF in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
STUFF can come back 56 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 STUFF; 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 STUFF
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to STUFF.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing STUFF:
Research on STUFF
Game-tree analysis and word research for STUFF, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with STUFF, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,783 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.03 guesses at best and is rank #6,541 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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
- STUFF sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 138 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).