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

JEDIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of Jedi

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 JEDIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JEDIS 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 225 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,427 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 JEDIS 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.

4.11 Entropy (bits)
225 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JEDIS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#11,427 Rank among openers
Opening with JEDIS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,427 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
718
4 guesses
1,308
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
21%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

JEDIS can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

478 answers
368 answers
229 answers
179 answers
162 answers
136 answers
112 answers
85 answers
77 answers
71 answers
53 answers
36 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
15 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1D2I1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing JEDIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JEDIS:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
16% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1%
CAROL 6.01 bits
15.5%
ALTER 5.42 bits
9.6%
SLART 5.29 bits
7.5%
PRINT 4.91 bits
6.8%
SLART 5.01 bits
5.7%
LEARE 4.68 bits
4.7%
TRINE 4.72 bits
3.6%
WOUND 4.77 bits
3.2%
ANTIC 4.64 bits
3.0%
STINK 4.37 bits

Research on JEDIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with JEDIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,401 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 JEDIS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 JEHDIHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JEDIS 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).