Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

LYTED

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

No dictionary definition for LYTED is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 LYTED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LYTED 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,780 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe LYTED 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.

4.81 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LYTED 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,780 Rank among openers
Opening with LYTED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,780 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
219
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
25%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

LYTED can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

335 answers
275 answers
214 answers
178 answers
133 answers
123 answers
121 answers
106 answers
61 answers
51 answers
49 answers
44 answers
41 answers
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38 answers
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27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1Y4T1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing LYTED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LYTED:

14% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
12% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1%
CAIRN 6.09 bits
11.6%
ARISE 5.31 bits
9.0%
ROAST 5.47 bits
7.5%
SLAIN 5.05 bits
5.6%
SONAR 4.88 bits
5.2%
SCARE 5.00 bits
5.1%
SONAR 4.48 bits
4.5%
BLASE 4.53 bits
2.6%
GRADE 4.29 bits
2.1%
SILLY 3.92 bits

Research on LYTED

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

Optimal play

Opening with LYTED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,310 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 LYTED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 LYTUHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.