5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YMPES

YMPES 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 ympe

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 YMPES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YMPES 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,972 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 _M__S M in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL RAILE SAINT TONER DAILY SHART
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YMPES 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,972 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YMPES ranks #9,972 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,295
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
25
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:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
18%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

489
366
191
183
176
132
90
57
57
52
48
44
43
37
35
27
24
23
22
19
16
15
15
14
14
13
10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YMPES:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
TRAIL 6.13 bits
15.5% →
RAILE 5.19 bits
8.1% →
SAINT 5.30 bits
7.8% →
TONER 4.26 bits
7.5% →
DAILY 4.54 bits
5.6% →
SHART 4.86 bits
3.8% →
MANOR 5.03 bits
2.4% →
PIANO 4.95 bits
2.4% →
SAULT 4.37 bits
2.2% →
PRICE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4M3P3E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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