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THUMP

Yes, THUMP was the Wordle answer on April 19, 2023 (Wordle #669).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /θʌmp/

Noun

A blow that produces a muffled sound.

Noun

The sound of such a blow; a thud.

Verb

To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.

Verb

To cause to make a thumping sound.

“The cat thumped its tail in irritation.”

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: April 19, 2023 (#669).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 19, 2023 (#669).

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

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How THUMP performs as a guess

THUMP 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,276 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___P T in the 1st position and P in the 5th position T__M_ T in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__P H in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe THUMP 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How THUMP 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,276 Rank among openers
Opening with THUMP solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,276 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
848
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
13
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:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
21%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
T H U M B
T H U M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches THUMP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

THUMP can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

814 answers
251 answers
151 answers
133 answers
120 answers
83 answers
79 answers
76 answers
63 answers
63 answers
55 answers
43 answers
35 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1H4U1M3P3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

ARIEL REAST RAISE RAILE MORAE RAINE

Strategy after playing THUMP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing THUMP:

34% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
11% chance
Suggested:
REAST
6% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.3% →
ARIEL 6.13 bits
10.6% →
REAST 5.65 bits
6.4% →
RAISE 5.76 bits
5.6% →
RAILE 4.90 bits
5.1% →
MORAE 5.36 bits
3.5% →
RAINE 5.17 bits
3.3% →
SWARE 5.10 bits
3.2% →
CARLE 5.19 bits
2.7% →
SLANE 4.58 bits
2.7% →
COATE 4.44 bits

Research on THUMP

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

Optimal play

Opening with THUMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,982 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,591 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 THUHMP.

Rhymes with TRUMP STUMP SLUMP PLUMP CLUMP

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, THUMP is a kind of sound or blow.

Synonyms beat POUND poke thumping

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
THUMP sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

A loud thump woke me up.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The book fell to the ground with a loud thump.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).