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

JIBER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who jeers or taunts.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use JIBER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How JIBER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JIBER 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,518 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe JIBER 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JIBER 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,518 Rank among openers
Opening with JIBER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,518 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
759
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

JIBER can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

482 answers
329 answers
233 answers
187 answers
165 answers
101 answers
98 answers
97 answers
85 answers
68 answers
58 answers
41 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8I1B3E1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing JIBER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JIBER:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
SAULT 5.88 bits
13.8% →
SLATE 5.80 bits
9.8% →
COAST 5.50 bits
7.8% →
SLANT 5.52 bits
6.9% →
TEASE 4.81 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 3.50 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
4.1% →
SALTY 4.27 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 4.59 bits
2.9% →
PRINT 4.24 bits

Research on JIBER

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

Optimal play

Opening with JIBER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,822 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 JIBER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).