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

YURTS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of yurt

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

In a sentence

In the steppe, we live in yurts.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use YURTS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% 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 YURTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts YURTS 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,972 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 YURTS 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.

4.68 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How YURTS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,972 Rank among openers
Opening with YURTS 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,972 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
20%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

YURTS can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

433 answers
319 answers
176 answers
166 answers
153 answers
93 answers
92 answers
74 answers
66 answers
49 answers
48 answers
47 answers
47 answers
41 answers
38 answers
37 answers
33 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Y4U1R1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing YURTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing YURTS:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
13% chance
Suggested:
DAINE
7% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
ALINE 6.28 bits
13.4% →
DAINE 5.45 bits
7.4% →
PLANE 5.54 bits
7.0% →
LEANT 5.28 bits
6.4% →
ALONE 4.93 bits
3.9% →
ANILE 4.68 bits
3.9% →
ARIEL 4.73 bits
3.1% →
CLONE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
SPANE 4.75 bits
2.1% →
LAIDE 4.60 bits

Research on YURTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with YURTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,572 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 YURTS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
YURTS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).