5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JEFES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of jefe

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 JEFES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JEFES 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 66.0% of games, misses completely in 34.0%, and leaves about 390 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,504 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.

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__E_ J in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON SLART RAILE ROANY CLARY FLOAT
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.44 Entropy (bits)
390 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JEFES 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,504 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JEFES ranks #14,504 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
543
4 guesses
1,319
5 guesses
437
6 guesses
26
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
26%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

48 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

801
316
302
180
150
128
89
36
31
31
28
28
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22
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3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JEFES:

34% chance
Suggested:
TALON
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
13% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.0% →
TALON 5.76 bits
13.4% →
SLART 5.23 bits
12.8% →
RAILE 4.97 bits
7.6% →
ROANY 4.25 bits
6.4% →
SLART 4.71 bits
5.4% →
CLARY 4.98 bits
3.8% →
FLOAT 5.01 bits
1.5% →
TRADE 3.82 bits
1.3% →
SONAR 3.89 bits
1.3% →
GLARE 3.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1F4E1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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