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JEWEL

Yes, JEWEL was the Wordle answer on April 1, 2025 (Wordle #1382).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːəl//ˈd͡ʒuːl//ˈd͡ʒʊəl/

Noun

A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.

Noun

A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.

Verb

To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 1, 2025 (#1382).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How JEWEL performs as a guess

JEWEL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 390 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,338 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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___L J in the 1st position and L in the 5th position J__E_ J in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe JEWEL 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.

3.55 Entropy (bits)
390 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JEWEL 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,338 Rank among openers
Opening with JEWEL left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,338 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
604
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
444
6 guesses
30
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
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
28%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B E E C H
J E W E L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches JEWEL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

JEWEL can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

819 answers
337 answers
269 answers
149 answers
113 answers
112 answers
80 answers
75 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
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19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8E1W4E1L1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Try next

ROAST SAUCY SONAR SABLE SAINT STEER

Strategy after playing JEWEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JEWEL:

34% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
14% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
11% chance
Suggested:
SAUCY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
ROAST 5.98 bits
14.2% →
ROAST 5.41 bits
11.3% →
SAUCY 4.93 bits
6.3% →
SONAR 4.59 bits
4.8% →
ROAST 4.75 bits
4.7% →
SABLE 4.50 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 4.62 bits
3.2% →
SAINT 4.84 bits
1.7% →
STEER 3.90 bits
1.6% →
SARGE 4.04 bits

Research on JEWEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with JEWEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,891 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 JEWEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93; proven optimal play reaches 3.90. 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 JOOUHL.

Rhymes with CRUEL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, JEWEL is a kind of jewelry or someone.

Synonyms gem

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JEWEL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Nothing was in the jewel case.
© tatoeba.org contributor Teashrock (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What kind of jewel is this?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).