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FJELD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fjɛld/

Noun

A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.

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 FJELD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FJELD 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 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,101 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 FJELD 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.

3.69 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FJELD 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#13,101 Rank among openers
Opening with FJELD 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,101 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
649
4 guesses
1,310
5 guesses
340
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
22%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

FJELD can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

680 answers
495 answers
215 answers
142 answers
98 answers
97 answers
95 answers
71 answers
47 answers
42 answers
42 answers
32 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4J8E1L1D2
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing FJELD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FJELD:

29% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
21% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6%
ROAST 6.06 bits
20.9%
TARSE 5.58 bits
9.1%
COAST 5.22 bits
6.0%
LAREE 4.66 bits
4.1%
RAINE 4.78 bits
4.1%
SHART 5.27 bits
4.0%
DROIT 4.96 bits
3.0%
SAINT 4.30 bits
2.0%
SOARE 4.35 bits
1.8%
WAITE 3.98 bits

Research on FJELD

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

Optimal play

Opening with FJELD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,566 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 FJELD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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

One syllable Say it FYEHLD.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FJELD sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).