5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

YITES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of yite

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 YITES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YITES 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,298 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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__E_ Y in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL GRACE MADLY SOLAR CAIRN SNARL
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YITES 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,298 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YITES ranks #6,298 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
18
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:
EIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
26%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

279
257
151
136
130
113
103
100
84
68
68
55
48
48
45
37
37
31
29
29
28
27
26
25
25
25
23
22
21
20

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YITES:

12% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
GRACE
6% chance
Suggested:
MADLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
CAROL 5.98 bits
10.9% →
GRACE 5.31 bits
6.4% →
MADLY 4.46 bits
5.8% →
SOLAR 4.08 bits
5.5% →
CAIRN 5.25 bits
4.8% →
SNARL 5.00 bits
4.4% →
TROUT 5.15 bits
4.2% →
SORAL 4.58 bits
3.6% →
LEARE 4.87 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4I1T1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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