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.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of djin

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 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

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
86.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

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:

746 answers
349 answers
161 answers
161 answers
113 answers
93 answers
78 answers
70 answers
56 answers
54 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DJINS:

32% 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.

31.6%
ROATE 6.13 bits
14.8%
STARE 5.73 bits
6.8%
MORAE 5.36 bits
6.8%
LATER 5.24 bits
4.8%
ALURE 5.35 bits
3.9%
CRATE 5.05 bits
3.3%
CONTE 4.41 bits
3.0%
TRACE 4.98 bits
2.4%
ORATE 4.79 bits
2.3%
STOLE 4.01 bits

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.

The science of DJINS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about DJINS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with DJINS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses — rank #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 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it JIHNZ. 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.