input: from typing import List
  
  
  def autocomplete(input_text: str) -> List[str]:
      """ Predicts the top 5 words based on the input text. 
      It performs the following steps:
      1. Generate the word candidates based on the input text.
      2. Filter the word candidates to remove irrelevant words.
      3. Rank the words and return the top 5 words.
      >>> autocomplete("i")
      ['in', 'is', 'it', 'if', 'im']
      >>> autocomplete("hel")
      ['hello', 'help', 'held', 'helix', 'helpful']
      """
output:     word_candidates = []
      for word in word_list:
          if word.startswith(input_text):
              word_candidates.append(word)
      
      filtered_words = [word for word in word_candidates if len(word) > len(input_text)]
      
      ranked_words = sorted(filtered_words, key=lambda x: (-word_frequency[x], x))
      
      return ranked_words[:5]