5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JAWNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of jawn

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 JAWNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JAWNS 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 71.6% of games, misses completely in 28.4%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,837 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___S J in the 1st position and S in the 5th position J__N_ J in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET TRICE LINER STALE
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JAWNS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,837 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JAWNS ranks #12,837 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
674
4 guesses
1,312
5 guesses
316
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
24%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

55 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

670
320
265
170
164
124
79
57
51
47
47
40
37
29
26
25
25
20
16
16
13
12
12
10
10
9
8
7
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JAWNS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.4% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
13.6% →
ALERT 5.54 bits
11.2% →
ROUET 5.46 bits
7.2% →
TRICE 4.68 bits
7.0% →
LINER 5.09 bits
5.3% →
STALE 4.80 bits
3.4% →
GOIER 4.63 bits
2.4% →
ALIEN 4.39 bits
2.2% →
TRIDE 5.09 bits
2.0% →
SLUSE 4.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1W4N1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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