5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WHUMP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʍʌmp//wʌmp/

Noun

A soft thumping sound.

Noun

A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.

Verb

To strike something with a whump.

Verb

To make a soft thumping sound.

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 WHUMP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHUMP 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 57.3% of games, misses completely in 42.7%, and leaves about 493 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,252 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___P W in the 1st position and P in the 5th position W__M_ W in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__P H in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE RAISE STIRE MORAE COATE SLANT
Words starting with W Words ending with P

First-turn measures

3.45 Entropy (bits)
493 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHUMP 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,252 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHUMP ranks #12,252 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
705
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
322
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
19%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1008
195
193
145
130
97
89
85
47
34
33
25
21
20
20
19
16
15
13
11
11
10
7
7
7
6
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHUMP:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.7% →
RAILE 6.16 bits
8.3% →
RAISE 5.71 bits
8.2% →
STIRE 5.05 bits
6.1% →
MORAE 5.37 bits
5.5% →
COATE 5.51 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.93 bits
3.8% →
TRACE 5.22 bits
3.6% →
SOLER 5.13 bits
2.0% →
TRADE 4.91 bits
1.4% →
GLARE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4U1M3P3
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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