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

JOCOS

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

No dictionary definition for JOCOS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 79.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 JOCOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JOCOS 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 61.0% of games, misses completely in 39.0%, and leaves about 477 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,196 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

J___S J in the 1st position and S in the 5th position J__O_ J in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe JOCOS 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.

3.25 Entropy (bits)
477 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JOCOS 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,196 Rank among openers
Opening with JOCOS left 4 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 3.92 average. It ranks #14,196 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
577
4 guesses
1,325
5 guesses
385
6 guesses
31
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
21%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

JOCOS can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

927 answers
397 answers
227 answers
152 answers
149 answers
66 answers
54 answers
52 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1C3O1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

RAILE STALE CRANE TRINE TALER LATER

Strategy after playing JOCOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOCOS:

39% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
17% chance
Suggested:
STALE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.0% →
RAILE 6.25 bits
16.7% →
STALE 5.62 bits
9.6% →
CRANE 5.47 bits
6.4% →
TRINE 5.30 bits
6.3% →
TALER 4.54 bits
2.8% →
LATER 4.59 bits
2.3% →
SCALE 4.51 bits
2.2% →
STRAE 4.24 bits
1.6% →
THANE 3.88 bits
1.6% →
STIRE 4.01 bits

Research on JOCOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with JOCOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,210 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,901 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.93, 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 JOHKOHS. 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.