5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

YOUNG

Yes, YOUNG was the Wordle answer on December 5, 2023 (Wordle #899).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /jʌŋ//jʊŋɡ//jʊŋ/

Adjective

In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

“a lamb is a young sheep”

Adjective

At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

“the age of space travel is still young”

Noun

Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.

“The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.”

Verb

To become or seem to become younger.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 5, 2023 (#899).

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

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How YOUNG performs as a guess

YOUNG is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.6% of games, misses completely in 30.4%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,343 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__N_ Y in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__G O in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

REAST SATER TALER RAISE SCRAE SLIER
Words starting with Y Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
284 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YOUNG 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,343 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YOUNG ranks #8,343 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
833
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
224
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:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
24%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
Y O U N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches YOUNG in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

716
214
184
135
116
106
84
83
57
57
51
46
39
34
30
29
28
25
21
21
19
19
18
16
13
12
12
11
10
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOUNG:

30% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SATER
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.4% →
REAST 6.30 bits
9.1% →
SATER 5.27 bits
7.8% →
TALER 5.23 bits
5.7% →
RAISE 5.19 bits
4.9% →
SCRAE 4.80 bits
4.5% →
SLIER 5.13 bits
3.6% →
SLATE 4.84 bits
3.5% →
RAILE 5.23 bits
2.4% →
STALE 4.68 bits
2.4% →
ARSON 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1U1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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