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

YEESH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Interjection

Expressing exasperation or impatience.

Interjection

Expressing relief; phew, whew.

Alternative forms: eesh, yiish

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 YEESH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YEESH 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,283 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___H Y in the 1st position and H in the 5th position Y__S_ Y in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL RAILE DAILY STAIN PARTE RENAL
Words starting with Y Words ending with H

First-turn measures

All four describe YEESH 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.

4.25 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YEESH 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,283 Rank among openers
Opening with YEESH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,283 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
737
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
33
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:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
27%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

YEESH can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

528 answers
400 answers
214 answers
177 answers
89 answers
83 answers
78 answers
67 answers
51 answers
51 answers
50 answers
46 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YEESH:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
17% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
TRAIL 6.03 bits
16.9% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
9.1% →
DAILY 4.52 bits
7.5% →
STAIN 5.22 bits
3.8% →
PARTE 4.52 bits
3.5% →
RENAL 4.52 bits
3.3% →
RUOTE 4.31 bits
2.8% →
CHAIR 4.54 bits
2.2% →
TREAD 4.62 bits
2.2% →
SOLAR 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4E1E1S1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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