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JNANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 75.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dʒəˈnɑː.nə//dʒnɑːn(ə)//ɡjɑːn(ə)/

Noun

The knowledge, acquired through meditation, that one's self (atman) is identical with Ultimate Reality (Brahman).

Noun

Pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances.

Alternative forms: gnana, gyan, jñāna

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 JNANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JNANA 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 55.3% of games, misses completely in 44.7%, and leaves about 589 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,762 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.04 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

J___A J in the 1st position and A in the 5th position J__N_ J in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _N__A N in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in JNANA.

First-turn measures

All four describe JNANA 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.

2.86 Entropy (bits)
589 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.2% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JNANA 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.

4.04 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,762 Rank among openers
Opening with JNANA left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 4.04 average. It ranks #14,762 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
463
4 guesses
1,304
5 guesses
510
6 guesses
47
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
26%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

JNANA can come back 43 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1060 answers
404 answers
230 answers
174 answers
115 answers
83 answers
56 answers
34 answers
32 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8N1A1N1A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

TOILE TALER STIRE MOIRE TOISE CANOE

Strategy after playing JNANA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JNANA:

45% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
17% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.7% →
TOILE 5.96 bits
17.0% →
TALER 5.58 bits
9.7% →
STIRE 5.07 bits
7.3% →
MOIRE 5.02 bits
4.8% →
TOISE 4.72 bits
3.5% →
CANOE 4.38 bits
2.4% →
TUILE 4.73 bits
1.4% →
MOILE 4.30 bits
1.3% →
STOLE 3.35 bits
0.8% →
TRIDE 3.41 bits

Research on JNANA

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

Optimal play

Opening with JNANA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.04 guesses and ranks #14,789 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.22 guesses at best and is rank #7,416 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.04, at or below the proven-optimal 4.04, 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 NANUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JNANA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).