5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

YEGGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of yegg

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of yegg

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 YEGGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YEGGS 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 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,164 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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___S Y in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL IRATE SLART LAIRY STAIR LATER
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YEGGS 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,164 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YEGGS ranks #14,164 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,317
5 guesses
384
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
1 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
17%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

563
470
240
205
201
137
76
61
44
42
38
31
27
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YEGGS:

24% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
20% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
TRAIL 6.05 bits
19.9% →
IRATE 5.19 bits
10.2% →
SLART 5.21 bits
8.7% →
LAIRY 4.52 bits
8.5% →
STAIR 4.76 bits
5.8% →
LATER 4.68 bits
3.2% →
SAULT 4.33 bits
2.6% →
GRAIL 4.85 bits
1.9% →
IRATE 4.38 bits
1.8% →
SLART 3.84 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4E1G2G2S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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