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

TAJES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of taj

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

Use TAJES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% 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 TAJES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAJES 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,756 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 TAJES 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAJES 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#9,756 Rank among openers
Opening with TAJES left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,756 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
747
4 guesses
1,310
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

TAJES can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

351 answers
233 answers
184 answers
156 answers
136 answers
126 answers
111 answers
105 answers
88 answers
72 answers
65 answers
61 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
29 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1J8E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing TAJES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAJES:

15% chance
Suggested:
COULD
10% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
8% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
COULD 5.57 bits
9.8% →
NOIRE 5.14 bits
7.7% →
ACORN 4.95 bits
6.5% →
OLDER 4.22 bits
5.7% →
BLARE 4.71 bits
5.3% →
SOULY 4.71 bits
4.7% →
NORTH 4.86 bits
4.4% →
RANDY 4.06 bits
3.7% →
SNORE 4.45 bits
3.0% →
SHORT 4.34 bits

Research on TAJES

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAJES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,777 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 TAJES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).