5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YARER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of yare: more yare

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 YARER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YARER 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,090 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__E_ Y in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST SLICE SLANT SOILY PRINT STEEL
Words starting with Y Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.71 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YARER 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#11,090 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YARER ranks #11,090 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
30
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

335
266
194
163
149
126
93
91
89
88
84
65
60
43
36
34
31
28
24
24
23
20
16
16
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14
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YARER:

14% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
11% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
HOIST 5.82 bits
11.3% →
SLICE 5.28 bits
8.2% →
SLANT 5.38 bits
6.9% →
SOILY 4.37 bits
6.3% →
SLANT 5.02 bits
5.3% →
PRINT 4.87 bits
3.9% →
STEEL 4.33 bits
3.9% →
TROPE 4.44 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.05 bits
3.7% →
SATIN 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1R1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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