5 letter words with J in position 4

There are 29 five-letter words in English with J in position 4. 2 of them appear on the curated Wordle answer list, so they are the most likely candidates if you hit this pattern in today's puzzle. J is one of the rarer letters in English, which is why the list is short — and why, when it shows up, it usually cracks the puzzle open.

Common words (2)

Words from the curated Wordle answer list — the most likely candidates for today’s solution.

banjo
ninja

Other valid words (27)

Five-letter words from the broader English dictionary the game accepts as guesses, but which rarely show up as answers.

bhaji
bunje
bunjy
emoji
gadje
gadjo
ganja
gauje
hadji
hajji
hodja
kanji
khoja
kopje
lapje
nduja
ouija
polje
pooja
punji
rioja
shoji
shojo
slojd
thuja
wilja
zanja

Most likely letters by position

For each slot, the letters that appear most often in these words. Color intensity reflects frequency.

Pos. 1

b14%

g14%

h10%

k10%

p10%

Pos. 2

a34%

h17%

u14%

o14%

i10%

Pos. 3

n28%

o24%

d14%

u10%

p7%

Pos. 4

j100%

Pos. 5

a38%

i24%

e21%

o10%

y3%

Most frequent letters overall

Useful for picking your next guess — frequent letters give you more information per try.

Vowels per word

How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) these five-letter words contain.

1 vowel

2 (7%)

2 vowels

22 (76%)

3 vowels

4 (14%)

4 vowels

1 (3%)