5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WYTHE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /waɪθ//wɪθ//wɪð/

Noun

A continuous vertical section of masonry, one unit in thickness.

“That wall has to be at least three wythes of brick to support your load.”

Noun

A partition between flues in a chimney.

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 WYTHE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WYTHE 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,743 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___E W in the 1st position and E in the 5th position W__H_ W in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _Y__E Y in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SORAL ARIEL SONAR SOLAR SLEER
Words starting with W Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.27 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WYTHE 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,743 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WYTHE ranks #11,743 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
27
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:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
27%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

459
292
279
207
196
109
102
65
61
56
43
40
39
31
29
28
26
21
21
15
15
14
11
10
10
10
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WYTHE:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
12% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
CAROL 5.97 bits
12.4% →
SORAL 4.84 bits
11.8% →
ARIEL 5.19 bits
8.8% →
SONAR 5.34 bits
8.3% →
SOLAR 4.85 bits
4.6% →
SLEER 4.64 bits
4.3% →
ROACH 5.18 bits
2.8% →
DEARE 4.37 bits
2.6% →
STAIR 4.22 bits
2.4% →
SONAR 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4Y4T1H4E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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