5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

VATJE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A small cask for water; a military canteen

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 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

V___E V in the 1st position and E in the 5th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SLIER SNARL SHORT SIREN SONLY
Words starting with V Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,525 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VATJE 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
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

472
270
238
197
186
122
96
93
87
80
43
42
39
36
29
28
27
26
22
20
18
13
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7

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.

20.0% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
11.5% →
SLIER 5.13 bits
10.1% →
SNARL 5.13 bits
8.4% →
SHORT 5.41 bits
7.9% →
SIREN 4.56 bits
5.2% →
SONLY 4.43 bits
4.1% →
RESET 4.69 bits
3.9% →
RENAL 4.75 bits
3.7% →
SLART 4.71 bits
3.4% →
SLART 3.94 bits

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.