5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

LYTTA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A fibrous muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, such as the dog.

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 LYTTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LYTTA 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 241 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,985 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

L___A L in the 1st position and A in the 5th position L__T_ L in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _Y__A Y in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

IRONE CRANE SIREN CLOSE SNORE SNARE
Words starting with L Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.13 Entropy (bits)
241 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LYTTA 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,985 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LYTTA ranks #10,985 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
17%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

551
316
210
201
162
148
101
78
52
41
39
38
36
34
34
25
23
21
21
19
14
12
12
12
10
9
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LYTTA:

23% chance
Suggested:
IRONE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SIREN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
IRONE 6.05 bits
13.4% →
CRANE 5.50 bits
8.9% →
SIREN 5.59 bits
8.5% →
CLOSE 5.02 bits
6.9% →
CRANE 4.53 bits
6.3% →
SNORE 4.70 bits
4.3% →
SNARE 4.84 bits
3.3% →
DORSE 4.29 bits
2.2% →
IDYLL 3.76 bits
1.7% →
ROUSE 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1Y4T1T1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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