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

JUMAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A device, used to clip on a rope, that tightens when weight is applied, thus allowing the rope to be climbed.

Verb

To climb using this device.

Noun

Alternative form of jumart.

Alternative forms: jümar

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 JUMAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JUMAR 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 256 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,771 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 JUMAR 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.

4.04 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JUMAR 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,771 Rank among openers
Opening with JUMAR solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,771 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
310
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
24%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

JUMAR can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

555 answers
373 answers
264 answers
174 answers
122 answers
97 answers
94 answers
84 answers
65 answers
62 answers
58 answers
48 answers
38 answers
36 answers
27 answers
27 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1M3A1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing JUMAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JUMAR:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4%
TOILE 6.05 bits
15.7%
SLATE 5.59 bits
11.1%
TRINE 5.37 bits
7.3%
TIARE 4.55 bits
5.1%
STONE 5.19 bits
4.1%
NOISE 3.72 bits
4.0%
STILE 4.66 bits
3.5%
CLOTE 4.59 bits
2.7%
SLICE 4.59 bits
2.6%
TOILE 5.28 bits

Research on JUMAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with JUMAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,421 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with JUMAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 JOOMAHR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.