5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

JAPED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of jape

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 JAPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JAPED 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,528 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

J___D J in the 1st position and D in the 5th position J__E_ J in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST RINSE SLART SENOR SONLY SOILY
Words starting with J Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JAPED 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#11,528 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JAPED ranks #11,528 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
698
4 guesses
1,311
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
30%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

490
300
262
172
164
143
100
65
64
64
45
44
42
38
30
28
25
23
23
23
19
19
17
13
13
13
9
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JAPED:

21% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
13% chance
Suggested:
RINSE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
HOIST 5.82 bits
12.7% →
RINSE 5.24 bits
11.1% →
SLART 5.41 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.29 bits
7.0% →
SENOR 4.45 bits
6.1% →
SONLY 4.59 bits
4.2% →
SOILY 4.97 bits
2.8% →
DROIT 4.62 bits
2.7% →
URINE 4.42 bits
2.7% →
PRONE 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1P3E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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