5-Letter Word

BYKED

A 5 letter word: byked

B1
Y2
K3
E4
D5
Letter positions
Word
byked
Position 1
b
Position 2
y
Position 3
k
Position 4
e
Position 5
d
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
4
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
15

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 42381.9%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
B18717.0%
Y22632.1%
K32532.0%
E42,25718.1%
D58076.5%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
B1320%
Y2427%
K3533%
E417%
D5213%
Total15Higher than 96% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is BYKED a good Wordle opening word?
BYKED has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does BYKED mean?
BYKED: A 5 letter word: byked.
What is the Scrabble score for BYKED?
15 points. Tile breakdown: B(3) + Y(4) + K(5) + E(1) + D(2). The highest-value tile is K (5 points), contributing 33% of the total. This score is higher than 96% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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