5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

YAHOO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈjɑːhuː//jəˈhuː/

Noun

A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

Noun

A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Interjection

Exclamation of joy or enjoyment.

Interjection

Battle cry.

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 YAHOO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YAHOO 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,531 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___O Y in the 1st position and O in the 5th position Y__O_ Y in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER ALERT TRONE SIDLE STILE TRICE
Words starting with Y Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.89 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YAHOO 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,531 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YAHOO ranks #13,531 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
644
4 guesses
1,304
5 guesses
348
6 guesses
26
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
3 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
20%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

55 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

561
385
250
167
156
140
77
72
69
60
55
37
37
35
28
26
26
20
14
13
13
10
10
9
8
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6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YAHOO:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
16% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
SLIER 6.05 bits
16.3% →
ALERT 5.49 bits
10.6% →
TRONE 5.28 bits
7.1% →
SIDLE 4.74 bits
6.6% →
STILE 4.70 bits
5.9% →
TRICE 5.57 bits
3.3% →
SIENT 3.42 bits
3.1% →
DROLE 4.40 bits
2.9% →
STARE 4.45 bits
2.5% →
CRUET 4.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1H4O1O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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