5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

YAFFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of yaff

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 YAFFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YAFFS 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 69.6% of games, misses completely in 30.4%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,760 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___S Y in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE ALERT STIRE DROLE RONTE THALE
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.46 Entropy (bits)
355 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YAFFS 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#13,760 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YAFFS ranks #13,760 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
601
4 guesses
1,347
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
17%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

52 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

717
365
295
191
169
141
71
63
56
39
38
28
24
20
15
11
11
10
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9
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5
5
5
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4
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YAFFS:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
15% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
13% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.4% →
TRONE 6.07 bits
15.5% →
ALERT 5.51 bits
12.5% →
STIRE 5.45 bits
8.1% →
DROLE 4.94 bits
7.2% →
RONTE 4.85 bits
6.0% →
THALE 4.70 bits
3.0% →
TRINE 5.21 bits
2.7% →
TRIDE 3.50 bits
2.4% →
SUITE 4.00 bits
1.7% →
DROLE 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1F4F4S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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