5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YOKER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who yokes.

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 YOKER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YOKER 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,400 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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__E_ Y in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLANT SAINT SAULT IRATE COUNT SLAIN
Words starting with Y Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.64 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YOKER 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,400 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YOKER ranks #9,400 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
21
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

342
320
161
148
148
131
97
91
87
76
59
57
50
48
41
37
31
31
29
29
26
25
23
23
22
18
16
15
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOKER:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
14% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SLANT 5.66 bits
13.6% →
SAINT 6.12 bits
6.8% →
SAULT 4.65 bits
6.3% →
SAINT 5.24 bits
6.3% →
IRATE 4.63 bits
5.6% →
SLANT 5.27 bits
4.1% →
SAINT 3.82 bits
3.9% →
COUNT 4.42 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 4.63 bits
3.2% →
SAINT 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1K5E1R1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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