5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

JONES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒoʊnz/

Noun

An addiction or intense craving.

“I’ve got a basketball jones!”

Verb

To have an intense craving for something.

“I’m jonesing for some basketball.”

Verb

To binge on cocaine or alcohol.

Noun

Heroin.

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 JONES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JONES 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 83.9% of games, misses completely in 16.1%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,008 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 SLART ALTER ACTOR CLARY
Words starting with J Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
177 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JONES 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,008 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JONES ranks #11,008 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
20
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:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

379
352
197
153
145
127
119
109
64
52
50
47
47
46
41
37
36
27
26
24
23
21
18
17
17
16
14
14
12
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JONES:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
REATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.1% →
TRAIL 5.94 bits
14.9% →
REATE 5.56 bits
8.4% →
SLART 5.29 bits
6.5% →
ALTER 4.32 bits
6.1% →
ACTOR 5.03 bits
5.4% →
SLART 5.05 bits
5.0% →
CLARY 4.65 bits
4.6% →
GRANT 5.09 bits
2.7% →
INANE 4.41 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1N1E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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