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5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter

5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter number 20, and five end in the -YTHE tail.

20 wordsTop pick MYTHSHighest score MYTHY 16

2 of 20 are everyday words (10%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.

With Y in 2nd place, R is the most common 3rd letter (33 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 20 · most-used first

  • MYTHS13
  • BYTES10
  • HYTHE14
  • LYTIC10
  • LYTHE11
  • LYTES8
  • SYTHE11
  • LYTTA8
  • TYTHE11
  • CYTES10
  • CYTON10
  • FYTTE11
  • GYTES9
  • KYTES12
  • KYTHE15
  • LYTED9
  • MYTHI13
  • MYTHY16
  • WYTED12
  • WYTES11
All valid words 20

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • BYTES10
  • CYTES10
  • CYTON10
  • FYTTE11
  • GYTES9
  • HYTHE14
  • KYTES12
  • KYTHE15
  • LYTED9
  • LYTES8
  • LYTHE11
  • LYTIC10
  • LYTTA8
  • MYTHI13
  • MYTHS13
  • MYTHY16
  • SYTHE11
  • TYTHE11
  • WYTED12
  • WYTES11
Letters by positionIn 40% of these words the 4th letter is E.
1st letter
  1. L25%
  2. M15%
  3. C10%
4th letter
  1. E40%
  2. H40%
  3. T10%
5th letter
  1. S35%
  2. E30%
  3. D10%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
Score spreadMost of these words score 11 in Scrabble; MYTHY tops the list with 16. Scores before board bonuses.
  1. 88 points: 2 words
  2. 9 points: 2 words
  3. 1010 points: 4 words
  4. 11 points: 5 words
  5. 1212 points: 2 words
  6. 13 points: 2 words
  7. 1414 points: 1 words
  8. 15 points: 1 words
  9. 1616 points: 1 words
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
MYTHY1614All three
KYTHE1513All three
HYTHE1411Collins only
MYTHS1312All three
MYTHI1312Collins only
KYTES1211All three
WYTED1211All three
LYTHE1110Collins only
SYTHE119Collins only
TYTHE119All three
FYTTE1110All three
WYTES1110All three

This is a small, old-fashioned group: HYTHE, KYTHE, LYTHE, SYTHE and TYTHE share one tail, and WYTED and WYTES carry a Y where modern spellings use an I. Only MYTHS and BYTES read as ordinary English. Eleven of the 20 have a definition, and the frame stops at 20 words.

5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter

  • 20 tournament words match the shape _ Y T _ _.
  • L opens five words, M three, and W, K and C two each.
  • Five words end in -YTHE: HYTHE, KYTHE, LYTHE, SYTHE and TYTHE.
  • Only BYTES and MYTHS rank among the most common words.
  • MYTHY reaches 16 points, half of that from its two Y tiles.

Why does the -YTHE cluster dominate?

The five -YTHE words share more than an ending, because each one is a spelling that most players meet only in a tournament list. KYTHE, LYTHE, SYTHE and TYTHE are older or variant forms, and HYTHE is a rare noun for a landing place. Six words end in E altogether, so FYTTE is the only E-tail entry outside that family.

S takes seven words, and five of them are forms built on the same YTE stem: BYTES, CYTES, GYTES, KYTES and LYTES. The exceptions are MYTHS, an ordinary plural, and WYTES, which sits beside WYTED as an old spelling. The E and S tails account for 13 of the 20 matches.

How to separate the YT lookalikes

  1. Start with the ending: HYTHE, KYTHE, LYTHE, SYTHE and TYTHE all finish on the same four-letter tail.
  2. Treat WYTED and WYTES as older spellings. Both appear in NWL2023, Collins and ENABLE.
  3. Take MYTHS when you want a plural with real currency: it scores 13 and is one of two common words.
  4. Count your Y tiles before you play MYTHY. The pair is worth 8 of its 16 points.

A testing tool rather than an answer list

Note

All 20 of the 5-letter words with Y as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter are legal Wordle guesses, yet none belongs to the answer list, so the shape tests tiles rather than finishes grids.

Questions people ask

Which five-letter words put Y in the second slot and T in the third?
The pattern holds 20 tournament words. Five end in -YTHE and seven in S, which leaves few stragglers. Only BYTES and MYTHS count as common words, and 11 of the 20 come with a definition.
Which words in this pattern score best in Scrabble?
MYTHY is the best play here on 16 points, with two Y tiles worth 8 of them. KYTHE follows on 15 and HYTHE on 14, while MYTHS and MYTHI reach 13. Rare tiles do most of the work in this group.
Does any Wordle answer use Y second and T third?
None do. Every one of the 20 matches is an accepted guess rather than an answer, so the shape serves to test tiles. MYTHS and BYTES show how ordinary the guesses can look.

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