5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

YOUSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronoun

Alternative form of yous.

Determiner

Alternative form of yous.

“Have youse gentlemen finished talking?”

Contraction

Alternative form of you'se.

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 YOUSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YOUSE 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,386 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 5th position Y__S_ Y in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ALTER TRAIN RAILE TALON TARDY STALK
Words starting with Y Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.99 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YOUSE 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
0.72 Volatility
#9,386 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YOUSE ranks #9,386 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
791
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
33
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
3 vowels
Common:
EOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
37%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

313
258
166
157
126
96
78
75
68
68
57
52
47
47
44
44
42
41
41
35
35
33
30
29
26
21
20
18
18
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOUSE:

13% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
ALTER 5.40 bits
10.9% →
TRAIN 5.76 bits
7.0% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
6.7% →
TALON 5.07 bits
5.3% →
TARDY 4.49 bits
4.1% →
STALK 4.87 bits
3.3% →
CANER 4.30 bits
3.2% →
STEER 4.39 bits
2.9% →
UNTIL 4.67 bits
2.9% →
LEARE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1U1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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