5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JOBED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of jobe

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 JOBED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JOBED 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 74.2% of games, misses completely in 25.8%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,940 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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 _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLART ARSON STAIR CLARY SNARE
Words starting with J Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JOBED 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,940 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JOBED ranks #11,940 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
697
4 guesses
1,297
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
14
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
29%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

609
438
204
184
131
78
75
69
65
45
43
35
28
26
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21
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOBED:

26% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.8% →
SAINT 6.07 bits
18.6% →
SLART 5.89 bits
8.7% →
ARSON 5.19 bits
7.8% →
STAIR 4.66 bits
5.6% →
CLARY 4.62 bits
3.3% →
SNARE 4.30 bits
3.2% →
LEARE 4.63 bits
2.9% →
DRAIN 4.69 bits
2.8% →
SAULT 4.87 bits
1.9% →
THALE 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1B3E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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