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

POLJE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).

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 POLJE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POLJE 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,188 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe POLJE 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POLJE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#9,188 Rank among openers
Opening with POLJE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,188 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
247
6 guesses
17
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:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
36%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

POLJE can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

453 answers
325 answers
199 answers
179 answers
172 answers
130 answers
109 answers
62 answers
62 answers
54 answers
49 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1L1J8E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing POLJE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POLJE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
DETER
8% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1%
SAINT 6.18 bits
13.7%
DETER 5.49 bits
8.4%
STAIR 5.10 bits
7.5%
SAINT 5.18 bits
7.2%
ARSON 5.37 bits
5.5%
SHART 4.42 bits
4.6%
ALTER 4.34 bits
2.6%
SLART 3.97 bits
2.6%
STARY 5.12 bits
2.3%
SLART 3.92 bits

Research on POLJE

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

Optimal play

Opening with POLJE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,540 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,209 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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 POHLJEE.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
POLJE 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).