5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

JIRDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of jird

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 JIRDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JIRDS 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,671 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 _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE COATE STALE ANILE ALONE PALET
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
251 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JIRDS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,671 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JIRDS ranks #10,671 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
774
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
277
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:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
20%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

555
324
297
172
102
97
91
86
86
79
67
39
36
32
29
25
25
22
19
18
17
11
10
9
9
8
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JIRDS:

24% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
COATE
13% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
OLATE 6.02 bits
13.7% →
COATE 5.40 bits
12.6% →
STALE 5.72 bits
7.3% →
ANILE 5.40 bits
4.3% →
ALONE 5.19 bits
4.1% →
COATE 4.90 bits
3.9% →
PALET 4.54 bits
3.6% →
SPATE 5.03 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 4.68 bits
3.4% →
LEANT 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8I1R1D2S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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