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JAWAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈwɑːn/

Noun

An infantryman; a soldier.

Noun

plural of jinn

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 JAWAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JAWAN 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 59.3% of games, misses completely in 40.7%, and leaves about 495 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,478 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

J___N J in the 1st position and N in the 5th position J__A_ J in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in JAWAN.

First-turn measures

All four describe JAWAN 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.

3.21 Entropy (bits)
495 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JAWAN 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,478 Rank among openers
Opening with JAWAN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.95 average. It ranks #14,478 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
556
4 guesses
1,301
5 guesses
442
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
25%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

JAWAN can come back 50 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

966 answers
319 answers
264 answers
198 answers
106 answers
76 answers
70 answers
55 answers
41 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1W4A1N1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Try next

TOILE STARE TOISE SLYER CLEAR SHORE

Strategy after playing JAWAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JAWAN:

41% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.7% →
TOILE 5.95 bits
13.4% →
STARE 5.45 bits
11.1% →
TOISE 5.39 bits
8.3% →
SLYER 4.83 bits
4.5% →
CLEAR 4.69 bits
3.2% →
SHORE 5.30 bits
2.9% →
SLATE 4.38 bits
2.3% →
SOLER 4.78 bits
1.7% →
TRIDE 3.78 bits
1.0% →
ALATE 3.67 bits

Research on JAWAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with JAWAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.96 guesses and ranks #14,482 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 #7,072 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95, at or below the proven-optimal 3.96, 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 JAWUHN. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, JAWAN is a kind of indian.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JAWAN sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).