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

AJWAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of ajwain.

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 AJWAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AJWAN 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 59.3% of games, misses completely in 40.7%, and leaves about 522 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,523 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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 AJWAN 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.

3.10 Entropy (bits)
522 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AJWAN 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,523 Rank among openers
Opening with AJWAN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.96 average. It ranks #14,523 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
569
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
458
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
19%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

AJWAN can come back 44 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

966 answers
444 answers
264 answers
106 answers
88 answers
76 answers
73 answers
55 answers
31 answers
29 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1J8W4A1N1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing AJWAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AJWAN:

41% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.7%
TOILE 5.95 bits
18.7%
TARSE 5.53 bits
11.1%
TOISE 5.39 bits
4.5%
CLEAR 4.69 bits
3.7%
TRACE 4.27 bits
3.2%
SHORE 5.30 bits
3.1%
DROLE 4.99 bits
2.3%
SOLER 4.78 bits
1.3%
STORE 4.02 bits
1.2%
WRATH 4.19 bits

Research on AJWAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with AJWAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.98 guesses and ranks #14,586 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 #7,116 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.96, at or below the proven-optimal 3.98, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AYJWAHN. 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.