Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

YARTO

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

No dictionary definition for YARTO is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use YARTO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How YARTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YARTO 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 112 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,765 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe YARTO used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
112 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YARTO 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,765 Rank among openers
Opening with YARTO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,765 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,089
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
25%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

YARTO can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

282 answers
198 answers
163 answers
162 answers
132 answers
118 answers
115 answers
106 answers
78 answers
73 answers
67 answers
58 answers
57 answers
44 answers
41 answers
39 answers
37 answers
37 answers
32 answers
31 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4A1R1T1O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing YARTO

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to YARTO.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YARTO:

12% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
SLICE 6.13 bits
8.3% →
SLICE 5.72 bits
6.8% →
CLONE 5.28 bits
6.8% →
SEINE 4.96 bits
5.5% →
SIENT 5.35 bits
4.9% →
CRANE 4.54 bits
4.8% →
SPILE 4.66 bits
4.4% →
SCONE 4.31 bits
3.3% →
SMILE 4.52 bits
3.1% →
LEAST 4.92 bits

Research on YARTO

Game-tree analysis and word research for YARTO, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with YARTO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,284 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,585 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).