5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JOKES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊks//d͡ʒoʊks/

Noun

plural of joke

Adjective

Really good.

Adjective

funny or entertaining.

“Man, that video is bare jokes!”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of joke

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 JOKES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JOKES 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,737 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___S J in the 1st position and S in the 5th position J__E_ J in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE SAULT RAILE TALON CLARY
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JOKES 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,737 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JOKES ranks #13,737 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
613
4 guesses
1,339
5 guesses
344
6 guesses
26
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

469
413
202
192
188
156
140
71
69
56
48
45
44
28
28
24
19
18
16
14
13
11
8
8
8
6
6
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOKES:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
18% chance
Suggested:
REATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
17.5% →
REATE 5.51 bits
8.6% →
SAULT 5.35 bits
8.1% →
RAILE 4.32 bits
8.0% →
TALON 5.07 bits
6.6% →
CLARY 4.45 bits
5.9% →
SLART 5.00 bits
3.0% →
DRONE 4.44 bits
2.9% →
CAULK 5.01 bits
2.4% →
SPORT 3.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1K5E1S1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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