5 letter words ending in UMPY

What is in this list

This list holds 5 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. Every word here has 5 letters, and they average 5 letters by construction — so the interesting differences are in which letters they use. Of the 36 lists in this group it is the smallest; “5 letter words with E” is the largest with 3,876, 775 times as many.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 16.2 points (median 15); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 9.6, so this list runs 6.6 points richer. The top scorers are JUMPY (22), BUMPY (16), HUMPY (15), DUMPY (14). Point for point, JUMPY earns the most per letter: 22 points over 5 letters, 4.4 each.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 20% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list.

Letter by letter

Position by position, the most likely letters are B in slot 1 (20%), U in slot 2 (100%), M in slot 3 (100%), P in slot 4 (100%), Y in slot 5 (100%). 5 words use 5 different letters with none repeated (100%); the rest repeat at least one.

Word play in this list

No two words in this list are anagrams of each other. BUMPY is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of DUMPY.

0% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word. At the front, C turns one word into a new one (LUMPY → CLUMPY); G turns one word into a new one (LUMPY → GLUMPY).

Using this list

If the answer to a five-letter puzzle is known to be in this list, BUMPY is the guess that splits it most evenly: its colour patterns divide the words into 2 groups, the largest of which has 4 words left (0.7 bits of information). The full list is short enough to read in one go: BUMPY, DUMPY, HUMPY, JUMPY and LUMPY. Ranked by points it runs from JUMPY (22) down to LUMPY (14), a spread of 8 points.