5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JEMMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 77.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An immigrant.

Noun

Alternative spelling of jimmy (“crowbar”).

Verb

To shoehorn, to cram.

“two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred”

Verb

Alternative spelling of jimmy (“open with a crowbar”).

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 JEMMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JEMMY 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 65.9% of games, misses completely in 34.1%, and leaves about 523 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,739 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.03 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___Y J in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ARISE SORAL SLART SONAR STAIR
Words starting with J Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

2.92 Entropy (bits)
523 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JEMMY 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.

4.03 Avg guesses
99.7% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#14,739 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JEMMY ranks #14,739 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
492
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
507
6 guesses
53
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
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
28%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

47 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

803
695
249
168
80
49
41
33
29
24
23
21
17
17
15
11
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JEMMY:

34% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
29% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.1% →
TRAIL 6.05 bits
29.5% →
ARISE 5.28 bits
10.6% →
SORAL 4.72 bits
7.1% →
SLART 4.82 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 5.01 bits
2.1% →
ARISE 4.52 bits
1.7% →
SLART 4.06 bits
1.4% →
STAIR 4.01 bits
1.2% →
ROYAL 4.31 bits
1.0% →
AINEE 3.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1M3M3Y4
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 22 points

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