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

YRNEH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɝni//ˈɜːni/

Noun

A reciprocal unit of measurement for electrical inductance.

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 YRNEH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YRNEH 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,746 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe YRNEH 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YRNEH 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,746 Rank among openers
Opening with YRNEH left 2 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,746 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
904
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
24
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
34%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

YRNEH can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

298 answers
280 answers
171 answers
140 answers
129 answers
119 answers
96 answers
94 answers
77 answers
73 answers
67 answers
64 answers
56 answers
53 answers
47 answers
39 answers
39 answers
35 answers
33 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4R1N1E1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing YRNEH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YRNEH:

13% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
12% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6%
PLAIT 5.95 bits
11.8%
SAULT 5.71 bits
7.2%
SAULT 4.76 bits
5.9%
SAINT 5.23 bits
5.4%
COAST 5.25 bits
5.0%
ROAST 3.62 bits
4.0%
REAST 4.66 bits
4.0%
COAST 4.62 bits
3.2%
COATE 4.38 bits
3.1%
ANISE 4.69 bits

Research on YRNEH

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

Optimal play

Opening with YRNEH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,962 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 YRNEH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it RIHNROO. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.