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

DJINS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of djin

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use DJINS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% of possible answers.

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 DJINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DJINS 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 68.5% of games, misses completely in 31.5%, and leaves about 331 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,292 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe DJINS 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.

3.84 Entropy (bits)
331 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DJINS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#10,292 Rank among openers
Opening with DJINS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,292 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
255
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
22%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

DJINS can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

747 answers
351 answers
164 answers
162 answers
114 answers
94 answers
81 answers
72 answers
56 answers
54 answers
47 answers
46 answers
45 answers
38 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2J8I1N1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing DJINS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DJINS:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
7% chance
Suggested:
MORAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.5%
ROATE 6.13 bits
14.8%
STARE 5.74 bits
6.9%
MORAE 5.34 bits
6.8%
RATEL 5.24 bits
4.8%
ALURE 5.35 bits
4.0%
CARLE 5.06 bits
3.4%
CONTE 4.44 bits
3.0%
TRACE 4.99 bits
2.4%
ORATE 4.79 bits
2.3%
STOLE 4.01 bits

Research on DJINS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DJINS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,508 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DJINS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).