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

YABBY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈjæb.i/

Noun

Any of various freshwater crayfish, typically of the genus Cherax, valued as food, especially Cherax destructor of southeastern Australia.

Noun

A species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait; a nipper.

Verb

To search, forage, or fish for yabbies.

Verb

To show disrespect by denouncing or insulting; to diss.

Alternative forms: yabbie

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Borrowed from Wemba-Wemba yabij.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use YABBY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 75.2% of possible answers.

Open Solver with YABBY Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How YABBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YABBY 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 56.9% of games, misses completely in 43.1%, and leaves about 592 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,763 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.04 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Y___Y Y in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position Y__B_ Y in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in YABBY.

First-turn measures

All four describe YABBY 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.

2.77 Entropy (bits)
592 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YABBY 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.

4.04 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,763 Rank among openers
Opening with YABBY left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 4.04 average. It ranks #14,763 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
456
4 guesses
1,301
5 guesses
524
6 guesses
40

Composition

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
28%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

YABBY can come back 42 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1028 answers
498 answers
216 answers
195 answers
99 answers
70 answers
47 answers
47 answers
31 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1B3B3Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TOISE SLATE SILER RONTE TOILE SLART

Strategy after playing YABBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YABBY:

43% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
21% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.1% →
TOISE 6.06 bits
20.9% →
SLATE 5.49 bits
9.1% →
SILER 4.52 bits
8.2% →
RONTE 4.79 bits
4.2% →
TOILE 5.09 bits
2.9% →
SLART 3.41 bits
2.0% →
SLART 4.25 bits
2.0% →
TRADE 4.54 bits
1.3% →
CLONE 4.45 bits
1.0% →
ROUTE 4.33 bits

Research on YABBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with YABBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.04 guesses and ranks #14,783 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 YABBY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.04, at or below the proven-optimal 4.04, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
YABBY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).