5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

YULES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of Yule

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 YULES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YULES 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,624 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___S Y in the 1st position and S in the 5th position Y__E_ Y in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN TRACE TONER STAIR FINAL TARDY
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.83 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How YULES 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,624 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YULES ranks #6,624 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
867
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
26%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

340
273
152
143
133
131
126
108
73
55
50
48
47
45
44
43
41
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37
32
28
23
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YULES:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
6% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
TRAIN 6.24 bits
11.6% →
TRACE 5.54 bits
6.4% →
TONER 4.28 bits
6.1% →
STAIR 5.26 bits
5.6% →
FINAL 4.90 bits
5.6% →
TARDY 4.64 bits
5.3% →
STAIR 4.79 bits
4.6% →
BLATE 4.56 bits
3.1% →
COURT 4.92 bits
2.3% →
ARENE 3.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4U1L1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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