JETTY
JETTY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/[-ɾi]
- Noun
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A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.
- Noun
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A structure of stone or wood which extends into a river or sea to protect a bank, beach, harbour, etc., from currents or tides; a breakwater.
- Verb
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Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
- Verb
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To provide (a riverbank, seashore, etc.) with a jetty (“breakwater; dock or wharf”) (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).
Alternative forms: jettee
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey of a building, overhang; breakwater, pier, jetty”), from Anglo-Norman geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (“projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier”) (modern French jetée), a noun use of the past participle of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (“to throw”) from Late Latin iectāre, the present active infinitive of iectō (“to throw”), probably from Latin iactō (“to…
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How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it JEHTEE.
Rhymes with PETTY BETTY PETIT LETTY NETTY
Related meanings
Synonyms mole GROIN
In a sentence
We ate a waffle on the jetty.
A young couple were watching the sunset from the jetty.
Use JETTY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 84.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
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JETTY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 366 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,543 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe JETTY 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 JETTY 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
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches JETTY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
JETTY can come back 58 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 JETTY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing JETTY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to JETTY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing JETTY:
Research on JETTY
Game-tree analysis and word research for JETTY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with JETTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.95 guesses and ranks #14,405 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 JETTY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.96; proven optimal play reaches 3.95. 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- JETTY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).