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

YLIDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪlaɪd//ˈɪlɪd/

Noun

Any organic compound in which two adjacent atoms are connected by both a covalent and an ionic bond; normally written X⁺–Y⁻

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 YLIDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YLIDE 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 84.5% of games, misses completely in 15.5%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,419 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Y___E Y in the 1st position and E in the 5th position Y__D_ Y in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in YLIDE.

First-turn measures

All four describe YLIDE 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YLIDE 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,419 Rank among openers
Opening with YLIDE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,419 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
34%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

YLIDE can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

368 answers
249 answers
201 answers
141 answers
130 answers
93 answers
91 answers
81 answers
80 answers
55 answers
52 answers
51 answers
50 answers
49 answers
46 answers
41 answers
37 answers
34 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4L1I1D2E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ROAST COAST SORAL HOARD SONAR SNORT

Strategy after playing YLIDE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to YLIDE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YLIDE:

16% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.5% →
ROAST 6.08 bits
10.5% →
ROAST 5.35 bits
8.5% →
ROAST 5.34 bits
5.9% →
ROAST 4.97 bits
5.5% →
COAST 5.31 bits
3.9% →
SORAL 4.24 bits
3.8% →
ROAST 4.96 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.58 bits
3.4% →
COAST 4.58 bits
2.3% →
HOARD 4.73 bits

Research on YLIDE

Game-tree analysis and word research for YLIDE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with YLIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,412 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with YLIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YIHLYD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
YLIDE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).