JENNY
JENNY is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛni/
- Noun
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A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
- Noun
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A female creature of certain kinds:
- Verb
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To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Jen + -y, historically as a hypochoristic form of Janet, Jane, etc. but now more often used as a diminutive of Jennifer. Rarely also a nickname of Genevieve (compare Genny, pronounced the same), Eugenia or Virginia (compare Ginny).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it JEHNEE.
Rhymes with PENNY BENNY TENNY VENEY
In a sentence
Are you talking about Jenny?
Does Jenny want to go home?
Use JENNY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo 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.
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See what the public sample says →JENNY in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #625
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JENNY appeared in RHYME WITH U.S. COINS (purple group).
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· Puzzle #563
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JENNY appeared in FEMALE ANIMALS (blue group).
How JENNY performs as a guess
Wordle accepts JENNY 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 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 409 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,598 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.97 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe JENNY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How JENNY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
JENNY can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for JENNY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing JENNY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to JENNY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing JENNY:
Research on JENNY
Game-tree analysis and word research for JENNY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with JENNY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,539 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 JENNY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.97, at or below the proven-optimal 3.97, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- JENNY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).