5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CYTES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of cyte

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 CYTES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CYTES 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,217 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _Y__S Y in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

GRAIL GLARE DAILY TRAIN RAILE SLAIN
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CYTES 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,217 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CYTES ranks #7,217 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
828
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
19
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
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
27%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

298
268
164
160
159
119
112
92
89
85
63
53
50
48
46
39
33
31
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24
21
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CYTES:

13% chance
Suggested:
GRAIL
11% chance
Suggested:
GLARE
7% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
GRAIL 5.87 bits
11.4% →
GLARE 5.27 bits
7.0% →
DAILY 4.50 bits
6.8% →
TRAIN 5.21 bits
6.7% →
RAILE 4.13 bits
5.0% →
SLAIN 5.08 bits
4.7% →
SORAL 4.54 bits
3.9% →
STAIR 4.43 bits
3.8% →
REATE 4.77 bits
3.6% →
RAILE 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3Y4T1E1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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