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

JAXIE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of jacksy (“backside; buttocks”).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use JAXIE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How JAXIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JAXIE 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,446 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe JAXIE 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JAXIE 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,446 Rank among openers
Opening with JAXIE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.95 average. It ranks #14,446 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
551
4 guesses
1,302
5 guesses
409
6 guesses
49

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

JAXIE can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

419 answers
313 answers
276 answers
233 answers
166 answers
157 answers
134 answers
103 answers
89 answers
88 answers
65 answers
58 answers
48 answers
39 answers
38 answers
25 answers
22 answers
16 answers
12 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8A1X8I1E1
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 21 points

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

Strategy after playing JAXIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JAXIE:

18% chance
Suggested:
STORY
13% chance
Suggested:
SETER
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
STORY 5.54 bits
13.1% →
SETER 5.47 bits
11.6% →
SLART 5.37 bits
9.8% →
SPILT 4.83 bits
7.0% →
ROUSE 4.57 bits
6.6% →
SONLY 4.48 bits
5.6% →
ALERT 4.65 bits
4.3% →
SLART 4.35 bits
3.7% →
DINER 4.79 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 3.63 bits

Research on JAXIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with JAXIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,172 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with JAXIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95; proven optimal play reaches 3.92. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).