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

HAJES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of haj

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 HAJES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HAJES 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,347 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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 HAJES 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HAJES 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,347 Rank among openers
Opening with HAJES left 1 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 3.82 average. It ranks #12,347 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
685
4 guesses
1,314
5 guesses
293
6 guesses
23
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:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

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

378 answers
271 answers
220 answers
185 answers
164 answers
158 answers
134 answers
104 answers
101 answers
73 answers
49 answers
47 answers
42 answers
40 answers
40 answers
37 answers
31 answers
27 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1J8E1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing HAJES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAJES:

16% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
11% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9%
DROIT 5.57 bits
11.4%
NOIRE 5.11 bits
9.3%
TRAIL 5.27 bits
7.8%
OLDER 4.20 bits
6.9%
DEALT 4.78 bits
6.7%
SPOUT 4.98 bits
5.6%
RAINY 3.92 bits
4.4%
TOUCH 5.04 bits
4.3%
PRONE 4.59 bits
3.1%
SCANT 4.48 bits

Research on HAJES

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

Optimal play

Opening with HAJES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,178 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 HAJES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82; proven optimal play reaches 3.81. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 HAYJIHZ. 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.