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

JORAM

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of jorum.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use JORAM in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How JORAM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JORAM 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,205 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 JORAM 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JORAM 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,205 Rank among openers
Opening with JORAM left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,205 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
744
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
312
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
25%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

JORAM can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

497 answers
357 answers
231 answers
170 answers
146 answers
131 answers
102 answers
75 answers
72 answers
65 answers
59 answers
53 answers
40 answers
36 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8O1R1A1M3
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing JORAM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JORAM:

21% chance
Suggested:
STILE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
STILE 6.15 bits
15.0% →
SLATE 5.64 bits
9.7% →
TRIED 5.24 bits
7.1% →
STANE 4.52 bits
6.1% →
STILE 5.05 bits
5.5% →
CLUEY 4.48 bits
4.3% →
TRINE 4.40 bits
3.1% →
SLIPE 4.77 bits
3.0% →
STEAL 4.51 bits
2.7% →
SHUTE 4.72 bits

Research on JORAM

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

Optimal play

Opening with JORAM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,415 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,116 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JORAM 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).