5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WOJUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of woegeous.

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 WOJUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WOJUS 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 64.1% of games, misses completely in 35.9%, and leaves about 408 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,988 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

W___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__U_ W in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STALE TRONE CARLE TALER SLART
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.45 Entropy (bits)
408 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WOJUS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,988 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WOJUS ranks #13,988 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
616
4 guesses
1,308
5 guesses
378
6 guesses
26
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:
OSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
19%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

847
309
229
215
160
91
75
51
39
33
32
32
28
22
21
16
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9
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5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOJUS:

36% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
STALE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.9% →
RAILE 6.14 bits
13.1% →
STALE 5.69 bits
9.7% →
TRONE 5.20 bits
9.1% →
CARLE 5.01 bits
6.8% →
TALER 4.62 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.30 bits
3.2% →
TROPE 4.14 bits
2.2% →
TRICE 4.87 bits
1.7% →
TRIPE 4.04 bits
1.4% →
RANCE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1J8U1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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