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

JIVER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who jives.

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 JIVER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JIVER 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 77.4% of games, misses completely in 22.6%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,530 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe JIVER 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.

4.04 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JIVER 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,530 Rank among openers
Opening with JIVER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,530 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
25%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

JIVER can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

536 answers
346 answers
261 answers
196 answers
165 answers
99 answers
96 answers
92 answers
84 answers
78 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
30 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8I1V4E1R1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing JIVER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JIVER:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.6%
SAULT 5.85 bits
14.6%
SLATE 5.76 bits
11.0%
COAST 5.49 bits
8.3%
SLANT 5.57 bits
7.0%
CRARE 4.69 bits
4.2%
COAST 3.57 bits
4.0%
SLANT 4.74 bits
3.9%
SALTY 4.12 bits
3.5%
SLANT 4.54 bits
3.3%
PRINT 4.24 bits

Research on JIVER

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

Optimal play

Opening with JIVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,350 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 JIVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it JYVUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.