5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JHILS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of jhil

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 JHILS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JHILS 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 282 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,003 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S J in the 1st position and S in the 5th position J__L_ J in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ORATE ROATE PORAE RONTE CARTE TRONE
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
282 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JHILS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,003 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JHILS ranks #11,003 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
765
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
24%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

652
275
269
196
120
108
77
67
53
50
49
46
46
33
31
29
24
22
19
18
18
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12
11
9
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8
8
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JHILS:

28% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
11% chance
Suggested:
PORAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
ORATE 6.01 bits
11.7% →
ROATE 5.73 bits
11.4% →
PORAE 5.26 bits
8.3% →
RONTE 5.40 bits
5.1% →
CARTE 5.34 bits
4.6% →
TRONE 5.01 bits
3.3% →
LADLE 4.36 bits
2.8% →
TIARE 4.31 bits
2.2% →
SPANE 4.73 bits
2.1% →
STANE 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8H4I1L1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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