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

AKOYA

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How AKOYA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AKOYA 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,273 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___A A in the 1st position and A in the 5th position A__Y_ A in the 1st position and Y in the 4th position _K__A K in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AKOYA.

First-turn measures

All four describe AKOYA 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.

3.65 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AKOYA 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,273 Rank among openers
Opening with AKOYA 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 3.93 average. It ranks #14,273 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,307
5 guesses
397
6 guesses
34
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
18%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

AKOYA can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

643 answers
438 answers
259 answers
172 answers
160 answers
105 answers
73 answers
59 answers
59 answers
57 answers
56 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1K5O1Y4A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TRINE SLATE RONTE SILER SENOR SLART

Strategy after playing AKOYA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AKOYA:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
18% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
TRINE 6.09 bits
18.4% →
SLATE 5.58 bits
10.9% →
RONTE 5.34 bits
7.2% →
SILER 4.72 bits
6.7% →
SENOR 4.49 bits
4.4% →
SLART 4.10 bits
3.1% →
CANER 4.43 bits
2.5% →
CRISE 4.86 bits
2.5% →
CRUSE 4.26 bits
2.4% →
SOLDE 3.78 bits

Research on AKOYA

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

Optimal play

Opening with AKOYA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,038 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.08 guesses at best and is rank #7,034 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93; proven optimal play reaches 3.91. 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHKOYUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AKOYA 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).