Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

YOHAH

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

No dictionary definition for YOHAH is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use YOHAH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How YOHAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YOHAH 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 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,816 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe YOHAH 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.

3.82 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YOHAH 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,816 Rank among openers
Opening with YOHAH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,816 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
660
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
386
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
23%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

YOHAH can come back 48 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

569 answers
436 answers
230 answers
173 answers
139 answers
110 answers
101 answers
86 answers
82 answers
57 answers
52 answers
52 answers
35 answers
34 answers
27 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1H4A1H4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing YOHAH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOHAH:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
18% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
SLIER 6.04 bits
18.3% →
SLANE 5.39 bits
9.6% →
TRINE 5.22 bits
7.3% →
SILER 4.70 bits
5.8% →
SIREN 4.76 bits
4.6% →
RATEL 4.69 bits
4.2% →
SATED 4.06 bits
3.6% →
TALER 4.45 bits
3.4% →
TRICE 5.45 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 3.87 bits

Research on YOHAH

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

Optimal play

Opening with YOHAH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,038 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.09 guesses at best and is rank #7,074 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).