5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JIVED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒaɪvd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of jive

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 JIVED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JIVED 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 70.2% of games, misses completely in 29.8%, and leaves about 346 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,555 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___D J in the 1st position and D in the 5th position J__E_ J in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SLANT SOLAR TRINE SALTY
Words starting with J Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.69 Entropy (bits)
346 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JIVED 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,555 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JIVED ranks #13,555 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
371
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

703
438
240
187
94
87
78
74
46
44
27
25
25
22
21
20
19
19
17
16
14
13
12
9
8
7
7
7
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JIVED:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.8% →
ROAST 5.97 bits
18.6% →
SLART 5.87 bits
10.2% →
SLANT 5.56 bits
7.9% →
SOLAR 4.66 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 4.54 bits
3.7% →
SALTY 4.20 bits
3.3% →
DANDY 4.51 bits
3.1% →
DEARE 4.79 bits
2.0% →
SOARE 4.40 bits
1.9% →
SONAR 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8I1V4E1D2
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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