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JOINT

Yes, JOINT was the Wordle answer on October 8, 2024 (Wordle #1207).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɔɪnt/

Adjective

United, combined

“the joint influences of culture and climate”

Adjective

Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

“The play was a joint production between the two companies.”

Noun

The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

“This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.”

Noun

The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.

“The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 8, 2024 (#1207).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 8, 2024 (#1207).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How JOINT performs as a guess

JOINT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,747 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___T J in the 1st position and T in the 5th position J__N_ J in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe JOINT 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JOINT 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,747 Rank among openers
Opening with JOINT 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,747 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
817
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
23
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:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
36%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C U M I N
J O I N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches JOINT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

JOINT can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

600 answers
181 answers
164 answers
152 answers
151 answers
125 answers
120 answers
92 answers
70 answers
55 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1I1N1T1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

CARLE TARTE SACRE SIDLE LAREE SERAL

Strategy after playing JOINT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOINT:

25% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
7% chance
Suggested:
SACRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
7.6% →
TARTE 5.61 bits
6.9% →
SACRE 5.21 bits
6.4% →
SIDLE 5.04 bits
6.4% →
CARLE 4.71 bits
5.3% →
LAREE 5.16 bits
5.1% →
CARLE 5.04 bits
3.9% →
SERAL 5.17 bits
2.9% →
CANER 4.37 bits
2.3% →
ARSON 4.47 bits

Research on JOINT

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

Optimal play

Opening with JOINT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,839 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,537 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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

One syllable Say it JOYNT.

Rhymes with POINT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, JOINT is a kind of part or spot.

Synonyms join STICK junction ROAST articulate articulation

Opposites separate unilateral

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JOINT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 51 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 85 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom is in the joint.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It was a joint decision.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).