5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

UMPED

UMPED is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of ump

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 UMPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UMPED as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,450 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

U___D U in the 1st position and D in the 5th position U__E_ U in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _M__D M in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL SLART SOLAR ROAST MACRO DRAIN
Words starting with U Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UMPED 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,450 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UMPED ranks #6,450 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
830
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
190
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
2 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
21%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

583
381
182
178
98
83
80
76
76
69
45
43
38
25
25
22
22
21
21
18
16
16
15
14
13
13
13
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UMPED:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
TRAIL 5.99 bits
16.2% →
SLART 5.81 bits
7.7% →
SLART 5.17 bits
7.5% →
SOLAR 4.65 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 5.29 bits
3.5% →
MACRO 5.02 bits
3.4% →
DRAIN 4.87 bits
3.2% →
DEARE 4.72 bits
3.2% →
SCARE 4.79 bits
2.9% →
SLART 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1M3P3E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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