5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YLIDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ylid

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 YLIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YLIDS 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,567 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__D_ Y in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRACE PEART CATER RANCE ROATE DRONE
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YLIDS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,567 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YLIDS ranks #4,567 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
13
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
1 vowels
Common:
ILS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

520
274
170
154
140
111
97
91
55
53
53
52
52
50
42
31
29
23
23
23
20
19
18
16
14
14
14
13
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YLIDS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
12% chance
Suggested:
PEART
7% chance
Suggested:
CATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
TRACE 6.41 bits
11.6% →
PEART 5.75 bits
7.2% →
CATER 5.27 bits
6.5% →
RANCE 5.35 bits
5.9% →
ROATE 4.80 bits
4.7% →
DRONE 5.40 bits
4.1% →
BRACE 4.99 bits
3.9% →
TRONE 5.10 bits
2.3% →
HAOLE 4.04 bits
2.2% →
TRONE 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4L1I1D2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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