5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

YABBA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A traditional Jamaican handmade ceramic cooking pot.

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 YABBA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YABBA 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 56.8% of games, misses completely in 43.2%, and leaves about 565 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,668 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.00 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.

Y___A Y in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SLATE SILER TRICE TOILE SLART
Words starting with Y Words ending with A

First-turn measures

2.92 Entropy (bits)
565 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YABBA 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.

4.00 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,668 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YABBA ranks #14,668 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
502
4 guesses
1,302
5 guesses
477
6 guesses
38
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
18%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

47 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1019
428
247
164
98
78
46
44
32
24
21
20
16
14
14
13
9
8
8
6
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YABBA:

43% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
18% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.2% →
TOISE 6.07 bits
18.2% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
10.5% →
SILER 4.67 bits
7.0% →
TRICE 4.81 bits
4.2% →
TOILE 5.09 bits
3.3% →
SLART 3.48 bits
2.0% →
DROLE 4.25 bits
1.9% →
TRADE 4.50 bits
1.4% →
MOILE 4.39 bits
1.0% →
ROUTE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1B3B3A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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