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

JANTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Archaic form of jaunty.

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 JANTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JANTY 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,019 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 JANTY 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.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JANTY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#10,019 Rank among openers
Opening with JANTY 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 3.76 average. It ranks #10,019 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
249
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

JANTY can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

552 answers
305 answers
245 answers
173 answers
156 answers
117 answers
111 answers
83 answers
59 answers
57 answers
48 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1N1T1Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing JANTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JANTY:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
13% chance
Suggested:
PEARL
10% chance
Suggested:
SHIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3%
SLIER 6.11 bits
12.8%
PEARL 5.35 bits
10.3%
SHIER 5.61 bits
7.3%
GOIER 5.27 bits
6.6%
SOLDE 4.62 bits
4.9%
ALERT 4.94 bits
4.7%
SOREL 4.80 bits
3.5%
GRISE 4.64 bits
2.5%
CRISE 4.43 bits
2.4%
ROUET 4.74 bits

Research on JANTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with JANTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,163 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,389 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 JANTEE. 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.