5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

YURTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of yurt

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 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 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

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__T_ Y in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALINE DAINE PLANE LEANT ALONE ANILE
Words starting with Y Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,972 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, YURTS 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
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSTU

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

426
317
174
164
153
93
92
72
66
49
48
47
45
41
38
37
33
30
26
25
22
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18
18
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12
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12

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.

18.1% →
ALINE 6.28 bits
13.4% →
DAINE 5.45 bits
7.4% →
PLANE 5.52 bits
7.0% →
LEANT 5.26 bits
6.5% →
ALONE 4.94 bits
3.9% →
ANILE 4.68 bits
3.9% →
ARIEL 4.73 bits
3.1% →
CLONE 4.82 bits
2.8% →
SPANE 4.75 bits
2.1% →
LAIDE 4.60 bits

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.