5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

YEALM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of yelm.

Verb

Alternative spelling of yelm.

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 YEALM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YEALM 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,984 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__L_ Y in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__M E in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

SIREE SNORT TAPIR STONY TARSE SHART
Words starting with Y Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YEALM 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#6,984 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YEALM ranks #6,984 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
21
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

343
319
135
120
113
100
96
88
84
77
74
56
51
46
42
37
34
31
28
28
25
25
25
23
19
18
18
14
14
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YEALM:

15% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
14% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
6% chance
Suggested:
TAPIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SIREE 5.38 bits
13.5% →
SNORT 6.05 bits
5.7% →
TAPIR 5.21 bits
5.1% →
STONY 4.27 bits
4.8% →
TARSE 4.78 bits
4.2% →
SHART 4.74 bits
4.1% →
CLOUT 4.63 bits
3.7% →
SIREN 4.64 bits
3.6% →
SIREE 4.33 bits
3.3% →
TONAL 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4E1A1L1M3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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