Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

AKKER

AKKER is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

No dictionary definition for AKKER is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use AKKER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How AKKER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AKKER as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,851 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe AKKER used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AKKER performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,851 Rank among openers
Opening with AKKER left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,851 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
637
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
380
6 guesses
27

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

AKKER can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

443 answers
286 answers
272 answers
184 answers
156 answers
139 answers
128 answers
105 answers
100 answers
67 answers
60 answers
54 answers
39 answers
35 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for AKKER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

A1K5K5E1R1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Strategy after playing AKKER

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AKKER.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AKKER:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
11% chance
Suggested:
SATIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

18.6% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
12.0% →
SEINE 5.39 bits
11.4% →
SATIN 5.17 bits
7.7% →
COURT 5.07 bits
6.5% →
SLATE 5.08 bits
5.8% →
TOISE 4.56 bits
5.4% →
COAST 4.24 bits
4.4% →
SOILY 3.48 bits
4.2% →
TOILE 4.03 bits
2.8% →
TRACE 4.12 bits

Research on AKKER

Game-tree analysis and word research for AKKER, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with AKKER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,822 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with AKKER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89; proven optimal play reaches 3.86. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AKKER sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).