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AYAHS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ayah

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 AYAHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AYAHS 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,598 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___S A in the 1st position and S in the 5th position A__H_ A in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _Y__S Y in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AYAHS.

First-turn measures

All four describe AYAHS 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.

3.96 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AYAHS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#11,598 Rank among openers
Opening with AYAHS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,598 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
22%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

AYAHS can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

658 answers
257 answers
253 answers
184 answers
148 answers
122 answers
81 answers
71 answers
70 answers
59 answers
58 answers
47 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Y4A1H4S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

RIONE TALER TRONE DROLE CONTE DRICE

Strategy after playing AYAHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AYAHS:

28% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
RIONE 6.01 bits
10.8% →
TALER 5.44 bits
10.7% →
TRONE 5.38 bits
7.8% →
DROLE 4.92 bits
6.2% →
CONTE 5.47 bits
5.1% →
DRICE 4.81 bits
3.4% →
DROLE 4.92 bits
3.0% →
STILE 4.35 bits
2.9% →
TARDY 3.79 bits
2.5% →
SOREL 4.64 bits

Research on AYAHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AYAHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,880 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 AYAHS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AYAHS is a kind of domestic.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AYAHS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).