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JUJUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 61.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of juju

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 JUJUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JUJUS 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 41.7% of games, misses completely in 58.3%, and leaves about 922 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,852 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.17 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__U_ J in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in JUJUS.

First-turn measures

All four describe JUJUS 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.

2.05 Entropy (bits)
922 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
61.1% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JUJUS 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.

4.17 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,852 Rank among openers
Opening with JUJUS left 6 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 4.17 average. It ranks #14,852 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
13
3 guesses
363
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
659
6 guesses
65
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
42%
Green tile
13%
All gray
58%

Feedback distribution

JUJUS can come back 24 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1385 answers
475 answers
137 answers
136 answers
59 answers
49 answers
40 answers
25 answers
17 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
5 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1J8U1S1
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 25 points

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

Try next

ARIEL TIARE CARLE TRONE SLANT TRODE

Strategy after playing JUJUS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JUJUS:

58% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
20% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
6% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

58.3% →
ARIEL 6.04 bits
20.0% →
TIARE 5.62 bits
5.8% →
CARLE 4.36 bits
5.7% →
TRONE 5.21 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.26 bits
2.1% →
TRODE 4.64 bits
1.7% →
SMITE 3.78 bits
1.1% →
BRACE 4.05 bits
0.7% →
CONTE 3.29 bits
0.4% →
FLORE 3.32 bits

Research on JUJUS

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

Optimal play

Opening with JUJUS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.17 guesses and ranks #14,852 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.35 guesses at best and is rank #7,451 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.17, at or below the proven-optimal 4.17, 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 JOOJIHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, JUJUS is a kind of magic or charm.

Synonyms fetish voodoo

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JUJUS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).