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

JURAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdʒʊɹəl//ˈdʒɝəl//ˈdʒʊəɹəl/

Adjective

Of or pertaining to law.

Adjective

Of or pertaining to moral rights and obligations.

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 JURAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JURAL 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,518 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 JURAL 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.

4.35 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JURAL 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,518 Rank among openers
Opening with JURAL left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,518 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
749
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
302
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:
ALRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

JURAL can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

415 answers
283 answers
283 answers
181 answers
177 answers
142 answers
96 answers
84 answers
70 answers
60 answers
46 answers
42 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1R1A1L1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing JURAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JURAL:

17% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
12% chance
Suggested:
CASTE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5%
SIENT 6.15 bits
11.9%
CASTE 5.25 bits
11.9%
TOISE 5.23 bits
7.6%
STANE 4.55 bits
7.5%
BIOSE 5.05 bits
6.0%
SPALE 4.66 bits
4.0%
STONE 5.20 bits
3.5%
STIME 4.20 bits
2.9%
SHOTE 4.73 bits
2.5%
STONE 4.60 bits

Research on JURAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with JURAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,435 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,270 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 JUURUHL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

Synonyms LEGAL

Opposites illegal

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
JURAL 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).