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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JINNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural 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 JINNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JINNS 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 61.2% of games, misses completely in 38.8%, and leaves about 458 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,097 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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__N_ J in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE CRATE LATER MORAE TRADE
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.30 Entropy (bits)
458 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JINNS 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,097 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JINNS ranks #14,097 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
599
4 guesses
1,317
5 guesses
368
6 guesses
38
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
23%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

50 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

914
370
225
125
117
84
80
67
53
44
42
30
27
27
26
14
13
11
11
10
8
7
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JINNS:

39% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
16% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.8% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
15.7% →
STARE 5.71 bits
9.5% →
CRATE 5.53 bits
5.3% →
LATER 4.69 bits
5.0% →
MORAE 5.02 bits
3.6% →
TRADE 4.94 bits
3.4% →
STILE 4.49 bits
2.8% →
CAGEY 4.63 bits
2.2% →
GRATE 4.51 bits
1.9% →
GRATE 3.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8I1N1N1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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