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

FUJIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of fuji

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 FUJIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FUJIS 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 64.7% of games, misses completely in 35.3%, and leaves about 407 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,668 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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 FUJIS 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.

3.48 Entropy (bits)
407 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FUJIS 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,668 Rank among openers
Opening with FUJIS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,668 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
636
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
381
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
21%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

FUJIS can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

837 answers
327 answers
303 answers
147 answers
103 answers
101 answers
101 answers
70 answers
57 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
23 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1J8I1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing FUJIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FUJIS:

35% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.3%
CARLE 6.12 bits
13.8%
STARE 5.65 bits
12.8%
TRINE 5.32 bits
6.2%
TRONE 5.37 bits
4.3%
MARLE 4.46 bits
4.3%
STILE 4.52 bits
4.3%
CARTE 4.90 bits
2.9%
SLANT 4.18 bits
2.4%
CARLE 5.11 bits
1.4%
SKATE 3.56 bits

Research on FUJIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with FUJIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,915 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,780 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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 FYOOJIHS.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FUJIS is a kind of cherry.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).