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TRAMP

TRAMP is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmp/[ˈtɹeə̯mp] ~ [ˈtɹɛə̯mp]/ˈtɹæːmp/

Noun

The act of walking with heavy steps.

Noun

A homeless person; a vagabond.

Verb

To walk with heavy footsteps.

Verb

To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

“We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.”

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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How TRAMP performs as a guess

TRAMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #595 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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 _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

CLINE SOLED LANCE HEIST RAILE SLICE
Words starting with T Words ending with P

First-turn measures

All four describe TRAMP 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TRAMP 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#595 Rank among openers
Opening with TRAMP left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #595 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
1,012
4 guesses
1,117
5 guesses
144
6 guesses
14
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:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
29%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I S T
A C O E L
T R A M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRAMP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TRAMP can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

438 answers
205 answers
192 answers
174 answers
95 answers
90 answers
82 answers
82 answers
77 answers
63 answers
57 answers
44 answers
42 answers
39 answers
39 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRAMP:

19% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLED
8% chance
Suggested:
LANCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
CLINE 6.02 bits
8.7% →
SOLED 5.09 bits
8.1% →
LANCE 5.21 bits
7.4% →
HEIST 5.36 bits
4.0% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
3.8% →
SLICE 5.08 bits
3.5% →
SNIDE 4.60 bits
3.5% →
SALET 4.75 bits
3.3% →
SLICE 5.30 bits
2.7% →
SOCLE 4.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1M3P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

The science of TRAMP

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about TRAMP — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with TRAMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses — rank #1,614 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.72 guesses at best — rank #102 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.65 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it TRAMP.

Rhymes with STAMP CHAMP CLAMP CRAMP

Meaning network

In WordNet's sense inventory, TRAMP is a kind of rover or rounder.

Synonyms RANGE cast roll pad hike hiking

How people know it

Frequency
TRAMP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English — a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2) — a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
People report experiencing what it names mainly by sight (visual strength 3.4 of 5 in the Lancaster norms).

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).