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

JURES

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

No dictionary definition for JURES is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 JURES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts JURES 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,549 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 JURES 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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How JURES 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,549 Rank among openers
Opening with JURES left 1 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,549 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
30
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:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

JURES can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

422 answers
291 answers
203 answers
193 answers
138 answers
130 answers
129 answers
102 answers
83 answers
76 answers
56 answers
50 answers
43 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
29 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

J8U1R1E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing JURES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing JURES:

18% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8%
TALON 5.85 bits
12.3%
LIANE 5.43 bits
8.6%
TRAIN 5.22 bits
8.1%
SLANT 5.19 bits
5.8%
TREAD 4.67 bits
5.5%
AINEE 3.20 bits
5.4%
SLANT 4.93 bits
4.3%
ALONE 4.16 bits
3.5%
COUNT 4.66 bits
3.2%
MEALY 3.64 bits

Research on JURES

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

Optimal play

Opening with JURES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,630 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 JURES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

One syllable Say it JUURZ. 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.