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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 66.0% of games, misses completely in 34.0%, and leaves about 527 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,739 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.03 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in JEMMY.

First-turn measures

All four describe JEMMY 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.

2.92 Entropy (bits)
527 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.70% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,739 Rank among openers
Opening with JEMMY left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 4.03 average. It 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 (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
29%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

JEMMY can come back 47 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

808 answers
700 answers
252 answers
170 answers
80 answers
49 answers
41 answers
33 answers
29 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers

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.

Try next

TRAIL ARISE SORAL SLART SONAR STAIR

Strategy after playing JEMMY

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

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.

34.0% →
TRAIL 6.04 bits
29.5% →
ARISE 5.29 bits
10.6% →
SORAL 4.73 bits
7.2% →
SLART 4.80 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

Research on JEMMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with JEMMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.01 guesses and ranks #14,723 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 JEMMY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.03; proven optimal play reaches 4.01. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 JEHMEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, JEMMY is a kind of pry.

Synonyms JIMMY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JEMMY 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).