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167 five letter words begin with Y, and three vowels carry nearly eight in ten of them.
A takes about thirty four percent, O twenty five and E twenty. U adds eleven and I five, and almost nothing else appears.
Y behaves as a consonant in the first box here, which is why a vowel follows it in nearly every entry.
YEARS, YOUNG, YOUTH, YOURS and YIELD are the entries you are most likely to want, and they cover four branches.
YOUNG, YOUTH and YOURS all run YOU, so confirming an O and a U together drops you into a small, familiar set.
That is the fastest narrowing available on this page, and it is worth testing before the larger A branch.
YEARS is the strongest single opener. It covers the leading branch and its E, A, R and S are four of the commonest letters in the language.
A consonant, since it sits in the first box and is followed by a vowel in almost every entry. Y only acts as a vowel later in a word.
Y begins comparatively few English roots. Most of its work happens inside words and at the end, not at the start.
Its CH and T make it unlike anything else on the page, so it is a poor opener but a sensible guess once the common shapes have failed.