5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

JOIST

JOIST is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɔɪst/

Noun

A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.

Verb

To fit or furnish with joists.

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

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 JOIST performs as a guess

JOIST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,024 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___T J in the 1st position and T in the 5th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE LINER CRANE EARLY PARLE TARTE
Words starting with J Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JOIST 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,024 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JOIST ranks #7,024 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
881
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
22
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:
IOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
36%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C U M I N
C H A F E
J O I S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches JOIST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

542
180
177
159
156
130
118
79
73
62
53
45
40
39
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37
33
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOIST:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER
8% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
7.6% →
LINER 5.25 bits
7.5% →
CRANE 5.52 bits
6.7% →
EARLY 4.46 bits
6.6% →
PARLE 5.36 bits
5.5% →
TARTE 5.49 bits
5.0% →
CRANE 5.03 bits
3.4% →
CRANE 5.03 bits
3.1% →
PHARE 4.80 bits
2.6% →
PLATE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1I1S1T1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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