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SWAMP

Yes, SWAMP was the Wordle answer on March 31, 2026 (Wordle #1746).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈswɒmp//ˈswɑmp/

Noun

An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)

Noun

A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

Verb

To drench or fill with water.

“The boat was swamped in the storm.”

Verb

To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

“I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.”

Alternative forms: swomp

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 31, 2026 (#1746).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SWAMP performs as a guess

SWAMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.5% of games, misses completely in 28.5%, and leaves about 283 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,882 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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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Useful pattern pages

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

S___P S in the 1st position and P in the 5th position S__M_ S in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _W__P W in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER TRICE RUOTE RIONE ROUET
Words starting with S Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.15 Entropy (bits)
283 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWAMP 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#5,882 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWAMP ranks #5,882 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
859
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S W A S H
S W A M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWAMP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

673
345
144
129
112
105
91
83
64
55
53
41
38
37
32
23
21
20
20
15
14
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWAMP:

29% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
6% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.5% →
TOILE 6.03 bits
14.6% →
TALER 5.56 bits
6.1% →
TOILE 5.00 bits
5.5% →
TRICE 5.12 bits
4.7% →
RUOTE 5.58 bits
4.5% →
RIONE 5.34 bits
3.9% →
ROUET 5.15 bits
3.5% →
DRONE 5.25 bits
2.7% →
MORNE 4.57 bits
2.3% →
LEANT 3.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1M3P3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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