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YOUTH

Yes, YOUTH was the Wordle answer on August 3, 2022 (Wordle #410).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /juːθ//juθ//jʉwθ/

Noun

The quality or state of being young.

“Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.”

Noun

The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

“Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.”

Alternative forms: yought, youthe

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: August 3, 2022 (#410).

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How YOUTH performs as a guess

YOUTH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,709 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Y___H Y in the 1st position and H in the 5th position Y__T_ Y in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in YOUTH.

First-turn measures

All four describe YOUTH 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
226 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YOUTH 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,709 Rank among openers
Opening with YOUTH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,709 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
260
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U S H Y
Y O U T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches YOUTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

YOUTH can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

594 answers
225 answers
217 answers
168 answers
114 answers
100 answers
83 answers
66 answers
64 answers
55 answers
48 answers
42 answers
40 answers
40 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4O1U1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RAILE REAST SANER SERAL SURGE CARLE

Strategy after playing YOUTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YOUTH:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SANER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
RAILE 6.14 bits
9.5% →
REAST 5.60 bits
9.1% →
SANER 5.23 bits
7.1% →
SERAL 5.02 bits
4.8% →
SURGE 5.15 bits
4.2% →
CARLE 4.68 bits
3.5% →
SLICE 5.22 bits
2.8% →
SLANE 4.46 bits
2.7% →
ARIEL 4.49 bits
2.3% →
DROLE 3.85 bits

Research on YOUTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with YOUTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,623 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with YOUTH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it YOOTH.

Rhymes with TRUTH BOOTH TOOTH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, YOUTH is a kind of juvenile or cohort.

Synonyms YOUNG

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
YOUTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 56 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 56 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

I have to live my youth.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Youth is all in the heart.
© tatoeba.org contributor dafp (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).