5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

JUGAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Relating to a jugum.

Adjective

Pertaining to the jugal bone.

Noun

A bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds; the equivalent of a malar in mammals.

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 JUGAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JUGAL 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,554 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___L J in the 1st position and L in the 5th position J__A_ J in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__L U in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE TARSE TOILE STALE SHIER DRONE
Words starting with J Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.87 Entropy (bits)
310 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How JUGAL 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,554 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, JUGAL ranks #12,554 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
691
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
24
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:
ALU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
22%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

659
433
179
147
144
95
82
69
58
49
46
42
28
27
27
26
23
22
19
19
14
12
12
9
7
6
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JUGAL:

28% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
18% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9% →
TRONE 6.12 bits
18.4% →
TARSE 5.52 bits
7.6% →
TOILE 5.03 bits
6.2% →
STALE 4.84 bits
6.1% →
TRONE 5.49 bits
4.0% →
SHIER 4.32 bits
3.5% →
DRONE 5.38 bits
2.9% →
CEDAR 4.46 bits
2.5% →
SOWER 4.16 bits
2.1% →
TRINE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1G2A1L1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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