5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WYTES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wyte

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wyte

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 WYTES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WYTES 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,289 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

W___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__E_ W 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

CAROL GRACE TRAIN LAIRY AIDER SNARL
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WYTES 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#10,289 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WYTES ranks #10,289 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,299
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
23%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

403
323
173
167
158
136
124
104
95
54
50
47
40
33
32
27
26
26
21
21
19
19
18
17
17
14
14
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13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WYTES:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
GRACE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.1% →
CAROL 6.06 bits
13.7% →
GRACE 5.22 bits
7.3% →
TRAIN 5.29 bits
7.1% →
LAIRY 4.39 bits
6.7% →
AIDER 4.24 bits
5.8% →
SNARL 5.05 bits
5.3% →
SORAL 4.47 bits
4.4% →
REATE 4.82 bits
4.0% →
STAIR 4.39 bits
2.3% →
SALSE 3.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4Y4T1E1S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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