5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter

A Y in the second slot and an E in the fourth produces 82 matches, and the set splits cleanly: 44 words close on S and 20 on D, leaving 18 for everything else. T and S each open ten of the 82. Nine entries count as everyday English, from TYPES and BYTES to HYPED and HYPER.

5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter

• 82 tournament words fit the frame _ Y _ E _.
• 44 end in S and 20 in D, so 64 of the 82 sit in two tail groups.
• Nine entries are common words: BYTES, CYBER, HYPED, HYPER, SYKES, TYLER, TYPED, TYPES and TYRES.
• Five words reach 17 points or more, led by ZYMES on 19.
• Three of the 82 are Wordle answers, and all 82 are accepted guesses.

Which endings carry most of the list?

S takes 44 of the 82 words, and most of them are plurals or third-person verbs: TYPES, TYRES, BYTES, PYXES and ZYMES among them. D follows with 20, and every one of those is a past tense, from TYPED and HYPED to LYSED and GYVED. The remaining 18 scatter across R, E, N, Y, A, G, L, M and X.

The tail tells you where to guess next. Rule out S and D and only 18 words are left, with R (7) and E (2) the largest groups inside that remainder. The R group is telling: CYBER, CYDER, SYKER, TYLER, HYPER, RYPER and SYVER all end in -ER.

The everyday entries cluster in four openings. TY- gives TYPES, TYPED, TYRES and TYLER, HY- gives HYPED, HYPER and HYMEN, SY- gives SYKES and SYREN, and BY- gives BYTES. X and Z supply the exotic end of the list in XYLEM, PYXES and ZYMES.

A guess-heavy pattern with few answers

Where the three dictionaries disagree

Collins lists all 82 of the 5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter, while NWL2023 and ENABLE stop at 52 and 51, so app players lose roughly a third of the pattern. Fifty-eight of the 82 carry a definition, and the rest are bare entries that take their value from the shape alone.