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

VATJE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A small cask for water; a military canteen

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

Use VATJE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% 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 VATJE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VATJE 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,525 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 VATJE 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VATJE 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,525 Rank among openers
Opening with VATJE 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,525 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
621
4 guesses
1,312
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
25

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
34%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

VATJE can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

479 answers
273 answers
241 answers
198 answers
188 answers
123 answers
98 answers
93 answers
87 answers
80 answers
43 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4A1T1J8E1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing VATJE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VATJE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
10% chance
Suggested:
SNARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
11.5% →
SLIER 5.14 bits
10.1% →
SNARL 5.14 bits
8.3% →
SHORT 5.41 bits
7.9% →
SIREN 4.55 bits
5.2% →
SONLY 4.43 bits
4.1% →
RESET 4.74 bits
3.9% →
RENAL 4.75 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.71 bits
3.4% →
SLART 3.94 bits

Research on VATJE

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

Optimal play

Opening with VATJE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,153 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 VATJE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87; proven optimal play reaches 3.84. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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).