5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YTOST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

past participle of toss

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 YTOST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YTOST 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 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,739 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___T Y in the 1st position and T in the 5th position Y__S_ Y in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _T__T T in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE CANER LAIDE ARIEL CRANE PHARE
Words starting with Y Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.16 Entropy (bits)
262 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YTOST 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,739 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YTOST ranks #9,739 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
802
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
261
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
28%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

650
220
199
192
150
117
106
78
57
53
40
40
36
34
32
26
24
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YTOST:

28% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CANER
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.6% →
RAILE 6.25 bits
9.3% →
CANER 5.38 bits
8.4% →
LAIDE 4.97 bits
8.1% →
RAILE 5.35 bits
6.4% →
RAILE 5.46 bits
5.0% →
ARIEL 5.17 bits
4.5% →
CRANE 4.81 bits
3.3% →
PHARE 4.89 bits
2.4% →
TONER 4.78 bits
2.2% →
BALER 3.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4T1O1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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