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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

YEAST

Yes, YEAST was the Wordle answer on May 10, 2025 (Wordle #1421).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /jiːst//jist//iːst/

Noun

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

Noun

A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

Verb

To ferment.

Verb

To rise.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 10, 2025 (#1421).

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

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How YEAST performs as a guess

YEAST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 97 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,676 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.

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___T Y in the 1st position and T in the 5th position Y__S_ Y in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CLING CAROL MOLDY LARGE SCION
Words starting with Y Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.39 Entropy (bits)
97 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YEAST 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,676 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YEAST ranks #2,676 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
157
6 guesses
17
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:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
34%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L E A N S
A B B E Y
Y E A S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches YEAST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

261
221
152
133
115
79
78
75
75
73
62
59
54
42
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YEAST:

11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLING
6% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.1% →
DROLE 5.29 bits
9.4% →
CLING 5.50 bits
6.4% →
CAROL 5.43 bits
5.6% →
MOLDY 4.48 bits
4.9% →
LARGE 4.60 bits
3.4% →
SCION 4.76 bits
3.3% →
RIONE 4.23 bits
3.2% →
NORTH 4.99 bits
3.2% →
SPIRE 4.49 bits
3.1% →
CRINE 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4E1A1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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