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THRUM

Yes, THRUM was the Wordle answer on June 22, 2025 (Wordle #1464).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/

Noun

A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.

Noun

A spicy taste; a tang.

Verb

To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking.

“She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.”

Verb

To make a monotonous drumming noise.

“to thrum on a table”

Alternative forms: thrumb

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: June 22, 2025 (#1464).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 22, 2025 (#1464).

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

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How THRUM performs as a guess

THRUM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 230 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,508 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

T___M T in the 1st position and M in the 5th position T__U_ T in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _H__M H in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in THRUM.

First-turn measures

All four describe THRUM 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
230 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THRUM 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,508 Rank among openers
Opening with THRUM left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,508 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
942
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
22%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
T H R U M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches THRUM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

THRUM can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

556 answers
359 answers
204 answers
129 answers
107 answers
78 answers
67 answers
66 answers
63 answers
59 answers
55 answers
51 answers
41 answers
34 answers
33 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4R1U1M3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ALONE DAINE SALET SLANE MOILE SOARE

Strategy after playing THRUM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THRUM:

23% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
15% chance
Suggested:
DAINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
ALONE 6.20 bits
15.1% →
DAINE 5.50 bits
8.6% →
SALET 5.74 bits
5.4% →
SLANE 4.99 bits
4.5% →
MOILE 5.40 bits
3.3% →
SOARE 4.83 bits
2.8% →
ALOSE 4.61 bits
2.8% →
SLAKE 5.04 bits
2.7% →
PLACE 5.00 bits
2.5% →
SAINE 4.58 bits

Research on THRUM

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

Optimal play

Opening with THRUM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,835 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,675 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it THRUHM. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, THRUM is a kind of sound or go.

Synonyms beat drum hum

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THRUM sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).