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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

JUDGE

Yes, JUDGE was the Wordle answer on December 26, 2022 (Wordle #555).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/

Noun

A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

Noun

A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.

Verb

To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).

“A higher power will judge you after you are dead.”

Verb

To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

“Justices in this country judge without appeal.”

Alternative forms: judg, iudge

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 26, 2022 (#555).

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

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How JUDGE performs as a guess

JUDGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 334 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,111 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___E J in the 1st position and E in the 5th position J__G_ J in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COAST SOLAR SLART CRUST LAIRY ROANY
Words starting with J Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.77 Entropy (bits)
334 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JUDGE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,111 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JUDGE ranks #13,111 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
652
4 guesses
1,310
5 guesses
327
6 guesses
23
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:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
29%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
A W F U L
B U D G E
J U D G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches JUDGE in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

696
418
254
133
106
94
93
86
40
39
30
26
26
25
25
24
17
17
17
17
16
14
12
10
8
7
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JUDGE:

30% chance
Suggested:
COAST
18% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
COAST 5.97 bits
17.7% →
SOLAR 5.23 bits
10.8% →
SLART 5.25 bits
5.6% →
CRUST 5.14 bits
4.5% →
LAIRY 5.14 bits
4.0% →
ROANY 5.02 bits
3.9% →
SHALY 4.23 bits
3.6% →
ARIEL 4.52 bits
1.7% →
ANGER 4.50 bits
1.7% →
SAULT 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1D2G2E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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