5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JESSY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

Alternative form of Jessie (“female name”).

Noun

Alternative form of Jessie.

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 JESSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JESSY 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 72.0% of games, misses completely in 28.0%, and leaves about 375 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,657 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 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 RAILE DAILY STAIN PARTE TRASH
Words starting with J Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.39 Entropy (bits)
375 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JESSY 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.

3.99 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,657 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JESSY ranks #14,657 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
493
4 guesses
1,330
5 guesses
456
6 guesses
40
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:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
32%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

49 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

661
557
211
192
159
138
50
48
41
39
28
25
24
20
19
18
17
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14
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5
5
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3
3
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JESSY:

28% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
24% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.0% →
TRAIL 6.04 bits
23.6% →
RAILE 5.27 bits
8.9% →
DAILY 4.16 bits
8.1% →
STAIN 4.92 bits
6.7% →
RAILE 4.50 bits
5.9% →
PARTE 4.61 bits
2.1% →
TRASH 4.35 bits
2.0% →
ROULE 4.17 bits
1.7% →
DEARE 3.86 bits
1.7% →
HAOLE 3.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1S1S1Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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