5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

YARFA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of yarpha.

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 YARFA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YARFA 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,442 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___A Y in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TOISE SLATE SIDLE TRACE TUILE
Words starting with Y Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
286 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YARFA 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,442 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YARFA ranks #12,442 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
697
4 guesses
1,274
5 guesses
322
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
2 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
23%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

629
331
273
185
155
118
76
59
50
46
39
36
31
27
26
19
19
16
15
15
14
13
13
13
13
10
10
9
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YARFA:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
TOILE 6.16 bits
14.0% →
TOISE 5.42 bits
11.6% →
SLATE 5.72 bits
7.8% →
SIDLE 4.84 bits
6.6% →
TRACE 4.77 bits
5.0% →
TUILE 4.63 bits
3.2% →
TOUSE 5.02 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 3.53 bits
2.1% →
TUILE 4.88 bits
2.0% →
CLOTE 3.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1R1F4A1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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