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

JAGAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of Jaga

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

Use JAGAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 82.3% 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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How JAGAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JAGAS 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 64.1% of games, misses completely in 35.9%, and leaves about 423 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,159 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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 JAGAS 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.

3.35 Entropy (bits)
423 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JAGAS 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,159 Rank among openers
Opening with JAGAS left 4 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 3.91 average. It ranks #14,159 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
586
4 guesses
1,315
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
27

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
24%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

JAGAS can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

856 answers
350 answers
258 answers
188 answers
134 answers
122 answers
97 answers
52 answers
35 answers
35 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1G2A1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing JAGAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JAGAS:

36% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.9% →
TOILE 5.96 bits
14.7% →
ROUET 5.41 bits
10.8% →
ALERT 5.34 bits
7.9% →
TRICE 4.86 bits
5.6% →
RIONE 5.53 bits
5.1% →
THALE 4.50 bits
4.1% →
CRUET 4.54 bits
2.2% →
STILE 4.15 bits
1.5% →
TOILE 4.17 bits
1.5% →
TRODE 4.00 bits

Research on JAGAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with JAGAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,329 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.09 guesses at best and is rank #7,082 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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).