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YACHT

Yes, YACHT was the Wordle answer on March 18, 2023 (Wordle #637).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /jɒt//jɑt/

Noun

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

Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

Verb

To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 18, 2023 (#637).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 18, 2023 (#637).

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

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How YACHT performs as a guess

YACHT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, 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

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

Y___T Y in the 1st position and T in the 5th position Y__H_ Y in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,311 Rank among openers
Opening with YACHT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,311 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
25%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
Y A C H T

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:

526 answers
266 answers
176 answers
121 answers
119 answers
118 answers
111 answers
73 answers
72 answers
58 answers
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11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1C3H4T1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RIONE GLARE SOLDE NOIRE CRINE SIREN

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:

22% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
GLARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2% →
RIONE 6.09 bits
11.2% →
GLARE 5.41 bits
7.4% →
SOLDE 4.69 bits
5.1% →
NOIRE 5.40 bits
5.0% →
CRINE 5.29 bits
5.0% →
SIREN 5.36 bits
4.7% →
SILER 4.81 bits
3.1% →
SERAL 4.79 bits
3.0% →
SOLER 5.30 bits
2.4% →
SLANE 4.48 bits

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it YAHT.

Rhymes with SQUAT LOTTE SURAT ALLOT STOTT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, YACHT is a kind of vessel or boat.

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).

In a sentence

Do you have a yacht?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
There were people on the yacht.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); 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).