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JOKEY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative spelling of joky.

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 JOKEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JOKEY 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 283 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,188 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___Y J in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position J__E_ J in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe JOKEY 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.

3.72 Entropy (bits)
283 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JOKEY 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#14,188 Rank among openers
Opening with JOKEY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.92 average. It ranks #14,188 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
554
4 guesses
1,368
5 guesses
374
6 guesses
24
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
37%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

JOKEY can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

502 answers
482 answers
232 answers
228 answers
190 answers
128 answers
93 answers
87 answers
57 answers
51 answers
42 answers
35 answers
34 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
16 answers
14 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1K5E1Y4
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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

Try next

SLART TRAIL ARSON STAIR SLANT SNARE

Strategy after playing JOKEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOKEY:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
10% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
SLART 5.70 bits
20.3% →
TRAIL 6.14 bits
9.8% →
ARSON 5.19 bits
9.6% →
STAIR 4.67 bits
8.0% →
SLART 4.59 bits
5.4% →
SLANT 4.43 bits
3.9% →
SNARE 4.39 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 4.83 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 3.53 bits
2.1% →
LEARE 4.28 bits

Research on JOKEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with JOKEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,645 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with JOKEY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92; proven optimal play reaches 3.89. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 JOHKEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JOKEY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.7 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).