5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WHAMO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Interjection

Alternative form of whammo.

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 WHAMO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHAMO 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 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,756 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

W___O W in the 1st position and O in the 5th position W__M_ W in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__O H in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TALER SOLER STIRE ACTOR TRUCE
Words starting with W Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.14 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHAMO 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,756 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHAMO ranks #10,756 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
777
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
316
6 guesses
16
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:
AO

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

594
345
295
181
93
78
58
52
49
48
47
39
37
29
28
28
27
23
23
19
17
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14
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHAMO:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.2% →
SLIER 6.04 bits
14.6% →
TALER 5.55 bits
12.5% →
SOLER 5.20 bits
7.7% →
STIRE 5.05 bits
3.9% →
ACTOR 4.38 bits
3.3% →
TRUCE 4.74 bits
2.5% →
MISER 4.86 bits
2.2% →
RAILE 4.37 bits
2.1% →
SLIER 4.22 bits
2.0% →
TRICE 4.97 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4A1M3O1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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