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

BAJUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of baju

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 BAJUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAJUS 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 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 311 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,826 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe BAJUS 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.

3.72 Entropy (bits)
311 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAJUS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,826 Rank among openers
Opening with BAJUS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,826 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
660
4 guesses
1,320
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ASU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
24%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

BAJUS can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

655 answers
354 answers
264 answers
194 answers
191 answers
144 answers
76 answers
72 answers
48 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1J8U1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing BAJUS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAJUS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
11% chance
Suggested:
TRIPE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.6%
TOILE 5.91 bits
14.9%
ALERT 5.56 bits
11.1%
TRIPE 5.43 bits
8.2%
RONTE 4.79 bits
8.0%
CLONE 4.95 bits
6.1%
THALE 4.70 bits
3.2%
SHUNT 4.26 bits
3.0%
TOILE 4.80 bits
2.0%
POLEY 4.05 bits
1.4%
CRONE 4.28 bits

Research on BAJUS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAJUS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,016 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,292 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 BAHJIHS. 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.