YACHT
Yes, YACHT was the Wordle answer on March 18, 2023 (Wordle #637).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /jɒt//jɑt/
- Noun
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A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
“Would you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?”
- Noun
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Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
- Verb
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To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Circa 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from Dutch jacht (“yacht; hunt”), in older spelling jaght(e), short for jaghtschip (“light sailing vessel, fast pirate ship”, literally “pursuit ship”), compound of jacht and schip (“ship”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it YAHT.
Rhymes with SQUAT LOTTE SURAT ALLOT STOTT
In a sentence
Do you have a yacht?
There were people on the yacht.
Use YACHT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 18, 2023 (#637).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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YACHT appeared in BOATS (yellow group).
How YACHT performs as a guess
YACHT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,311 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe YACHT 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How YACHT 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches YACHT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
YACHT can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for YACHT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing YACHT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to YACHT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing YACHT:
Research on YACHT
Game-tree analysis and word research for YACHT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with YACHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,054 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 YACHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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
- YACHT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).