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TRAMP

TRAMP is an accepted guess. Its modelled answer likelihood is likely; no globally completed appearance is recorded here.

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.

Etymology

From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it TRAMP.

Rhymes with STAMP CHAMP CLAMP CRAMP

Related meanings by dictionary sense

noun

a vagrant

a homeless tramp

Synonyms for this sense: bum, hobo.

noun

a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

noun

a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

noun

a heavy footfall

the tramp of military boots

noun

a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

noun

a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

Synonyms for this sense: hike, hiking.

verb

travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

verb

walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Synonyms for this sense: pad.

verb

cross on foot

We had to tramp the creeks

verb

move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

Synonyms for this sense: range, cast, roll, swan, drift, stray, wander, roam.

Open English WordNet, 2025 edition, CC BY 4.0. Source dictionary. Senses are kept separate; no puzzle appearance is assigned to a meaning without evidence.

Use TRAMP in a puzzle

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

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Wordle status

Answer chance: likely. Roughly 38.31% within a year (about 1 in 3), under the model through 2026-11-05. This is an estimate, not a publisher forecast. How this is calculated.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Earlier benchmark pool

Yes

Membership in the preserved uniform benchmark; it is not a future eligibility rule.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

TRAMP in Connections

2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How TRAMP performs as a guess

TRAMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,392 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 155 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.

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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 _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position TR_MP T in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, M in the 4th position, and P in the 5th position

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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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

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

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

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

When TRAMP is useful later

TRAMP tied for the smallest expected survivor count in 4 of 55 sampled positions where it was legal. This designed sample is not a measure of how often real players should use it.

After TARSE: 3 candidates, normal mode

TARSE: 02102 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

FAIRE: 02222 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

VAIRE: 02222 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: MAIRE, PAIRE, ZAIRE.

With a budget of 3 more guesses, TRAMP is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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After ADIEU: 3 candidates, normal mode

ADIEU: 00000 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

SLOPS: 00202 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

NOOBS: 02202 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

COOMS: 02212 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: MOOKS, MOORS, MOOTS.

With a budget of 2 more guesses, TRAMP is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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After ROATE: 3 candidates, normal mode

ROATE: 10101 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

AWNER: 10011 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

ZEBRA: 01012 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: CREMA, ERICA, PRESA.

With a budget of 3 more guesses, TRAMP is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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Sample and method

Every saved board is reachable within a six-turn game. Remaining turns equal six minus the saved history length. The sampling policy is independent of the expected-survivor metric. Two states at each of three depths per opener were selected by a fixed hash from an independent candidate-only sampling policy. Every accepted guess was evaluated. Model answer-model-2026-11-05-9183a914c959, data through 2026-11-05. The score measures expected survivors, not proved solve length or human difficulty.

How this is calculated.

How the solver finds TRAMP

The strategy receives only earlier guesses and their feedback. It does not know the answer before choosing a move. Guessing the answer itself on turn one is a lucky one-turn result, not a recommended general strategy.

Normal mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 35 after. This feedback leaves 35 candidates.

    All 35 surviving candidates

    THARM, TIARA, TITAR, TOLAR, TRACK, TRACT, TRADY, TRAGA, TRAGI, TRAGU, TRAIK, TRAIL, TRAIN, TRAIT, TRAMP, TRANK, TRANQ, TRANT, TRAPO, TRAPT, TRATT, TRAWL, TRAYF, TRIAC, TRIAD, TRIAL, TRIFA, TROAD, TROAK, TROAT, TRONA, TRYMA, TUART, TUBAR, TUGRA

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test TRAPT against the 35 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    35 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 4.7. Information: 1.508 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

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Hard Mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 35 after. This feedback leaves 35 candidates.

    All 35 surviving candidates

    THARM, TIARA, TITAR, TOLAR, TRACK, TRACT, TRADY, TRAGA, TRAGI, TRAGU, TRAIK, TRAIL, TRAIN, TRAIT, TRAMP, TRANK, TRANQ, TRANT, TRAPO, TRAPT, TRATT, TRAWL, TRAYF, TRIAC, TRIAD, TRIAL, TRIFA, TROAD, TROAK, TROAT, TRONA, TRYMA, TUART, TUBAR, TUGRA

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test TRAPT against the 35 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    35 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 4.7. Information: 1.508 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

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Historical proven-optimal benchmark: July 2023

Alex Selby’s strategy minimises the mean over its complete 3,158-answer snapshot. A route for one answer is not proof of the shortest possible route for that answer, and is separate from the current weighted model.

Normal mode

Selby’s proven-optimal strategy. July 2023 snapshot: 3,158 equally likely answers; minimum mean guesses.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    3,158 before → 10 after. This feedback leaves 10 candidates.

    All 10 surviving candidates

    TIARA, TRACK, TRACT, TRAIL, TRAIN, TRAIT, TRAMP, TRAWL, TRIAD, TRIAL

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 100.074. Information: 5.888 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test LIMIT against the 10 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    10 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 3.322 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 3 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 2.

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Hard Mode

Selby’s proven-optimal strategy. July 2023 snapshot: 3,158 equally likely answers; minimum mean guesses.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    3,158 before → 10 after. This feedback leaves 10 candidates.

    All 10 surviving candidates

    TIARA, TRACK, TRACT, TRAIL, TRAIN, TRAIT, TRAMP, TRAWL, TRIAD, TRIAL

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 100.074. Information: 5.888 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test TRAIL against the 10 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    10 before → 3 after. This feedback leaves 3 candidates.

    All 3 surviving candidates

    TRACK, TRACT, TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.8. Information: 2.646 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Test TRACK against the 3 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    3 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 1.585 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  4. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    TRAMP

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 4 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 3.

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Source: Alex Selby’s Wordle analysis, MIT. Licence and attribution.

How the fixed opener panel performs on this answer

OpenerFirst feedbackSurvivorsNormalHard Mode
TARSE21100 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)3533
CRANE02200 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)12043
SLATE00210 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)7633
ADIEU10000 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)201944
STARE01210 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)4133
AUDIO10000 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)251344
RAISE11000 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)35044
ROATE10210 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)6933
SALET01001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)15444
Normal mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 0 · 3 guesses: 4 · 4 guesses: 5 · 5 guesses: 0 · 6 guesses: 0 · Failed in six: 0
Hard Mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 0 · 3 guesses: 5 · 4 guesses: 4 · 5 guesses: 0 · 6 guesses: 0 · Failed in six: 0

The nine openers use the same pool and continuation policy. Across both modes: 3–4 guesses among successes; 0 of 18 configurations failed. This is performance on this answer, not an overall opener ranking.

674 openers set up a two-turn opportunity; examples include GREAT, PARTY, THANK, LEAST, HEART, SPACE, TRADE, PAPER, PARTS, TRACK. After their feedback, this answer is among the most likely survivors with at least half the model probability. This is an opportunity, not a guarantee. An opener that immediately solves is excluded.

A lesson from this route

This route identifies the answer on turn 2. Identifying a unique candidate and submitting it are separate actions.

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How this is calculated

The current policy checks all remaining candidates and up to 128 fixed probes. At six or fewer candidates it uses bounded lookahead, preferring modelled six-turn success, then speed among successes. Larger states use expected survivors as a heuristic. These are recommendations, not proofs of optimal play. Hard Mode retains green positions and revealed letter counts; it allows grey letters and a yellow in the same position. Candidate-only play is stricter.

Methods and limitations

Feedback distribution

TRAMP can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

444 answers
207 answers
194 answers
177 answers
95 answers
90 answers
83 answers
82 answers
80 answers
64 answers
59 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers

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.

Try next

CLINE SOLED LANCE HEIST RAILE SLICE

Strategy after playing TRAMP

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

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 5.20 bits
7.4% →
HEIST 5.36 bits
4.0% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
3.8% →
SLICE 5.08 bits
3.5% →
SNIDE 4.59 bits
3.4% →
SALET 4.75 bits
3.3% →
SLICE 5.31 bits
2.7% →
SOCLE 4.90 bits

Research on TRAMP

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

Optimal play

Opening with TRAMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #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 and is 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, 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
TRAMP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words in the source corpus. Corpus frequency does not measure every reader’s familiarity.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
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 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).