Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

AJUPA

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

No dictionary definition for AJUPA is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 79.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 AJUPA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AJUPA 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 63.4% of games, misses completely in 36.6%, and leaves about 490 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,453 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe AJUPA 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.

3.12 Entropy (bits)
490 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AJUPA 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,453 Rank among openers
Opening with AJUPA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.95 average. It ranks #14,453 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
572
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
446
6 guesses
32
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
17%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

AJUPA can come back 48 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

870 answers
556 answers
212 answers
142 answers
108 answers
84 answers
83 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1J8U1P3A1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing AJUPA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AJUPA:

37% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
23% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.6%
TRONE 5.96 bits
23.4%
TARSE 5.47 bits
8.9%
SLIER 4.98 bits
6.0%
SIREN 5.39 bits
4.5%
STONE 4.57 bits
3.5%
TRINE 5.04 bits
3.5%
REAST 5.07 bits
1.2%
SUITE 4.16 bits
1.2%
MORNE 4.08 bits
1.2%
SLART 3.91 bits

Research on AJUPA

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

Optimal play

Opening with AJUPA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,555 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.10 guesses at best and is rank #7,137 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95, at or below the proven-optimal 3.97, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHJOOPUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.