5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YEUKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of yeuk

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of yeuk

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 YEUKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YEUKS 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,682 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 Y__K_ Y in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ORATE DAILY SLART RAILE CURIO
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YEUKS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,682 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YEUKS ranks #12,682 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
697
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
312
6 guesses
29
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:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
21%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

439
431
181
163
163
143
102
63
56
54
50
41
40
38
33
32
32
31
29
22
20
18
14
13
11
10
10
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YEUKS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
18% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
8% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
TRAIL 6.09 bits
18.3% →
ORATE 5.21 bits
7.7% →
DAILY 4.76 bits
6.9% →
SLART 5.29 bits
6.9% →
SLART 4.84 bits
6.1% →
RAILE 4.50 bits
4.3% →
CURIO 4.61 bits
2.7% →
TRONE 4.11 bits
2.4% →
LUNGE 4.08 bits
2.3% →
SAINT 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4E1U1K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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