JEANS
JEANS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːnz/
- Noun
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A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
“Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.”
- Noun
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plural of jean
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it JEENZ.
Rhymes with MEANS TEENS BEANS GENES LEANS
Related meanings
Synonyms DENIM
In a sentence
Do you have new jeans?
How much are the jeans?
Use JEANS in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →JEANS in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #970
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JEANS appeared in BLUE THINGS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #500
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JEANS appeared in BLUE ___ (blue group).
How JEANS performs as a guess
Wordle accepts JEANS 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,801 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe JEANS 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How JEANS 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
JEANS can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for JEANS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing JEANS
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to JEANS.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing JEANS:
Research on JEANS
Game-tree analysis and word research for JEANS, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with JEANS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,686 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 JEANS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- JEANS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).