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

SABJI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of sabzi.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use SABJI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How SABJI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SABJI 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 256 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,888 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 SABJI 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.

3.91 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SABJI 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,888 Rank among openers
Opening with SABJI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,888 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
711
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
350
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
30%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

SABJI can come back 57 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

536 answers
344 answers
309 answers
184 answers
158 answers
102 answers
100 answers
80 answers
79 answers
76 answers
47 answers
43 answers
40 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1B3J8I1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing SABJI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SABJI:

22% chance
Suggested:
TONER
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
TONER 5.94 bits
14.4% →
TRINE 5.38 bits
13.0% →
ALERT 5.56 bits
7.7% →
TONER 4.74 bits
6.6% →
TONER 5.05 bits
4.3% →
ROUTE 5.23 bits
4.2% →
THALE 4.38 bits
3.4% →
DROLE 4.98 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.28 bits
3.2% →
ANVIL 4.49 bits

Research on SABJI

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

Optimal play

Opening with SABJI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,339 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,174 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, 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.

Familiarity and learning

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