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

JUPON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒu.pɒn//d͡ʒuˈpɒn//ˈd͡ʒu.pɑn/

Noun

A petticoat.

Noun

A close-fitting sleeveless jacket, descending below the hips, worn over armour.

Alternative forms: juppon

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 JUPON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JUPON 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 65.3% of games, misses completely in 34.7%, and leaves about 371 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,870 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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 JUPON 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.

3.71 Entropy (bits)
371 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JUPON 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,870 Rank among openers
Opening with JUPON left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,870 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
26
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:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
20%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

JUPON can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

823 answers
299 answers
207 answers
140 answers
115 answers
113 answers
72 answers
69 answers
58 answers
53 answers
48 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1P3O1N1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing JUPON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JUPON:

35% chance
Suggested:
REAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.7%
REAST 6.26 bits
12.6%
ROATE 5.12 bits
8.7%
TIARE 5.34 bits
5.9%
STARE 5.74 bits
4.8%
SLYER 4.46 bits
4.8%
SLATE 5.28 bits
3.0%
TRINE 4.47 bits
2.9%
TALER 4.85 bits
2.4%
SAVER 4.60 bits
2.2%
SALET 4.30 bits

Research on JUPON

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

Optimal play

Opening with JUPON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,207 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,628 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, 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 JOOPUHN. 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.