5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

JARUL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Lagerstroemia speciosa, a flowering plant native to tropical southern Asia.

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 JARUL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JARUL 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,933 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___L J in the 1st position and L in the 5th position J__U_ J in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SIENT TOISE STANE BIOSE TRACE SONCE
Words starting with J Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JARUL 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,933 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JARUL ranks #10,933 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
25
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:
ALRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

411
282
190
176
160
147
125
124
70
65
60
53
44
40
37
32
27
25
21
20
19
19
17
17
16
16
14
12
10
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JARUL:

17% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
STANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SIENT 6.14 bits
12.0% →
TOISE 5.24 bits
8.1% →
STANE 5.43 bits
7.5% →
BIOSE 5.05 bits
6.8% →
TRACE 4.85 bits
6.2% →
SONCE 4.82 bits
5.3% →
TONEY 4.64 bits
5.3% →
SLANE 4.57 bits
3.0% →
SHOTE 4.73 bits
2.8% →
SLICE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1R1U1L1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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