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

YRENT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

past participle of rend

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use YRENT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% 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 YRENT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YRENT 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 89.3% of games, misses completely in 10.7%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,474 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe YRENT 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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YRENT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,474 Rank among openers
Opening with YRENT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,474 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
930
4 guesses
1,157
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
30%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

YRENT can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

254 answers
233 answers
179 answers
156 answers
113 answers
94 answers
88 answers
88 answers
79 answers
76 answers
70 answers
52 answers
50 answers
46 answers
46 answers
40 answers
39 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4R1E1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing YRENT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YRENT:

11% chance
Suggested:
CLAIM
10% chance
Suggested:
SLADE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
CLAIM 6.06 bits
9.8% →
SLADE 5.24 bits
7.5% →
SOLAR 4.49 bits
6.5% →
SADLY 4.51 bits
4.7% →
CAROL 5.15 bits
3.9% →
LAIDE 4.65 bits
3.7% →
LOATH 4.71 bits
3.7% →
CABIN 5.02 bits
3.3% →
SHALE 4.70 bits
3.2% →
ALOSE 4.52 bits

Research on YRENT

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

Optimal play

Opening with YRENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,426 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 YRENT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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).