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

JIRDS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of jird

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

Use JIRDS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% 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 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe JIRDS 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.

4.01 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,671 Rank among openers
Opening with JIRDS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It 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

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

JIRDS can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

563 answers
326 answers
300 answers
174 answers
103 answers
97 answers
93 answers
88 answers
87 answers
81 answers
67 answers
39 answers
37 answers
33 answers
30 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

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.

Strategy after playing JIRDS

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

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.

23.6% →
OLATE 6.01 bits
13.7% →
COATE 5.40 bits
12.6% →
STALE 5.71 bits
7.3% →
ANILE 5.41 bits
4.3% →
ALONE 5.19 bits
4.1% →
COATE 4.90 bits
3.9% →
PALET 4.53 bits
3.7% →
SPATE 5.06 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 4.68 bits
3.4% →
LEANT 4.55 bits

Research on JIRDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with JIRDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,904 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 JIRDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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).