5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YANGS

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of yang

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 YANGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YANGS 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,118 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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

TRICE ALERT PORTE DROLE TOILE THALE
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YANGS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,118 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YANGS ranks #5,118 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
22%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

493
274
233
145
133
120
110
59
58
53
49
46
46
36
32
31
30
30
29
24
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YANGS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
TRICE 6.27 bits
11.6% →
ALERT 5.58 bits
9.9% →
PORTE 5.50 bits
6.1% →
DROLE 5.04 bits
5.6% →
TOILE 5.39 bits
5.1% →
THALE 4.82 bits
4.7% →
CLOTE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
DROLE 4.92 bits
2.5% →
CRINE 4.55 bits
2.2% →
TRONE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1N1G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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