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JOMON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 75.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Relating to an early Neolithic culture in Japan and Korea.

Adjective

Relating to pottery characteristic of this culture.

Noun

A member of this culture.

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 JOMON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JOMON 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 53.8% of games, misses completely in 46.2%, and leaves about 581 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,931 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

J___N J in the 1st position and N in the 5th position J__O_ J in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe JOMON 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.

3.14 Entropy (bits)
581 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JOMON 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,931 Rank among openers
Opening with JOMON 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 3.90 average. It ranks #13,931 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
603
4 guesses
1,314
5 guesses
375
6 guesses
26
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
24%
All gray
46%

Feedback distribution

JOMON can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1096 answers
294 answers
176 answers
152 answers
151 answers
66 answers
46 answers
45 answers
39 answers
31 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1M3O1N1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Try next

SLATE TIARE CRATE PAIRE CARLE SLIER

Strategy after playing JOMON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOMON:

46% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

46.2% →
SLATE 6.28 bits
12.4% →
TIARE 5.36 bits
7.4% →
CRATE 5.25 bits
6.4% →
PAIRE 5.41 bits
6.4% →
CARLE 4.82 bits
2.8% →
SLIER 4.84 bits
1.9% →
LATER 4.40 bits
1.9% →
TIARE 4.36 bits
1.6% →
TRIDE 3.77 bits
1.3% →
LAIRY 3.95 bits

Research on JOMON

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

Optimal play

Opening with JOMON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,201 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.07 guesses at best and is rank #6,928 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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 JOHMUHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JOMON sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).