Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

JEUNE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname.

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 JEUNE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JEUNE 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 300 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,779 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe JEUNE 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.

3.92 Entropy (bits)
300 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JEUNE 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#13,779 Rank among openers
Opening with JEUNE left 4 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 3.88 average. It ranks #13,779 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
655
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
388
6 guesses
36
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
3 vowels
Common:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
38%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

JEUNE can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

709 answers
254 answers
224 answers
157 answers
156 answers
118 answers
91 answers
79 answers
73 answers
45 answers
39 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1U1N1E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing JEUNE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JEUNE:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9%
TRAIL 5.95 bits
10.7%
SOLAR 5.15 bits
9.4%
SLART 5.20 bits
6.6%
CAIRN 5.07 bits
6.6%
SURLY 4.58 bits
5.0%
CLARY 5.06 bits
3.8%
ROAST 4.61 bits
3.3%
SHALT 4.71 bits
3.1%
SOLAR 4.26 bits
1.9%
STEER 4.09 bits

Research on JEUNE

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

Optimal play

Opening with JEUNE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,302 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 JEUNE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88; proven optimal play reaches 3.87. 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

One syllable Say it JOON. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JEUNE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).