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

JEELY

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

No dictionary definition for JEELY is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use JEELY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% 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 JEELY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JEELY 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 328 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,035 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe JEELY 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.

3.71 Entropy (bits)
328 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JEELY 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,035 Rank among openers
Opening with JEELY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,035 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
632
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
403
6 guesses
35

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
35%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

JEELY can come back 57 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

666 answers
436 answers
238 answers
219 answers
120 answers
87 answers
67 answers
52 answers
50 answers
49 answers
47 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1E1L1Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing JEELY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JEELY:

28% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
18% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9% →
TRAIN 6.16 bits
18.3% →
STAIR 5.38 bits
10.0% →
COAST 5.15 bits
9.2% →
ROAST 4.75 bits
5.0% →
VAIRE 4.43 bits
3.6% →
STAIR 4.73 bits
2.8% →
SHART 4.94 bits
2.2% →
SIREN 4.30 bits
2.1% →
COAST 4.32 bits
2.1% →
SOLAR 3.39 bits

Research on JEELY

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

Optimal play

Opening with JEELY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,922 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 JEELY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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.

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