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JINNI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 66.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of jinn.

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 JINNI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JINNI 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 44.5% of games, misses completely in 55.5%, and leaves about 801 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,833 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.09 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__N_ J in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__I I in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe JINNI 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.

2.48 Entropy (bits)
801 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
66.3% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JINNI 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.

4.09 Avg guesses
99.66% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#14,833 Rank among openers
Opening with JINNI left 8 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 4.09 average. It ranks #14,833 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
440
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
554
6 guesses
72
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
44%
Green tile
22%
All gray
56%

Feedback distribution

JINNI can come back 41 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1318 answers
301 answers
162 answers
141 answers
111 answers
76 answers
66 answers
57 answers
31 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8I1N1N1I1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

SOARE TARSE SORAL SALET ROAST CAGEY

Strategy after playing JINNI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JINNI:

56% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
13% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

55.5% →
SOARE 6.16 bits
12.7% →
TARSE 5.40 bits
6.8% →
SORAL 5.14 bits
5.9% →
SALET 4.58 bits
4.7% →
ROAST 4.78 bits
3.2% →
CAGEY 4.61 bits
2.8% →
REAST 4.66 bits
2.4% →
GRATE 3.79 bits
1.3% →
CLOSE 3.63 bits
0.6% →
SAVER 3.37 bits

Research on JINNI

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

Optimal play

Opening with JINNI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.08 guesses and ranks #14,833 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.27 guesses at best and is rank #7,440 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.09; proven optimal play reaches 4.08. 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 JIHNEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, JINNI is a kind of spirit.

Synonyms GENIE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JINNI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).