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

YCLED

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

No dictionary definition for YCLED 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 YCLED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% 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 YCLED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YCLED 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 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,418 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 YCLED 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YCLED 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,418 Rank among openers
Opening with YCLED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,418 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
24%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

YCLED can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

402 answers
317 answers
172 answers
168 answers
160 answers
157 answers
113 answers
87 answers
61 answers
58 answers
50 answers
46 answers
46 answers
45 answers
40 answers
36 answers
31 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4C3L1E1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing YCLED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YCLED:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
ROAST 6.15 bits
13.3% →
ROAST 5.71 bits
7.2% →
SAINT 5.30 bits
7.0% →
SAUNT 4.93 bits
6.7% →
CHAIN 5.28 bits
6.6% →
ROAST 4.54 bits
4.7% →
SLATE 4.78 bits
3.6% →
TRACE 4.97 bits
2.6% →
IRADE 4.45 bits
2.4% →
SONAR 3.64 bits

Research on YCLED

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

Optimal play

Opening with YCLED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,919 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with YCLED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).