Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

JOMOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of jomo

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 JOMOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JOMOS 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 56.7% of games, misses completely in 43.3%, and leaves about 551 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,320 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe JOMOS 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.

3.10 Entropy (bits)
551 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JOMOS 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,320 Rank among openers
Opening with JOMOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,320 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
602
4 guesses
1,271
5 guesses
424
6 guesses
32
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:
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Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
21%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

JOMOS can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1028 answers
407 answers
175 answers
156 answers
125 answers
62 answers
61 answers
42 answers
37 answers
37 answers
27 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1M3O1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing JOMOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JOMOS:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
17% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.3%
RAILE 6.20 bits
17.1%
STALE 5.61 bits
7.4%
CRANE 5.27 bits
6.6%
CARNE 4.72 bits
5.3%
CARLE 5.45 bits
2.6%
REACT 4.23 bits
2.6%
TALER 4.74 bits
1.8%
SPATE 4.53 bits
1.6%
LAIRY 4.10 bits
1.6%
SPIRE 4.13 bits

Research on JOMOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with JOMOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,337 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.08 guesses at best and is rank #6,993 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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 JOHMOHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.