5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

IKATS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ikat

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

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 IKATS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts IKATS 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,178 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

I___S I in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _K__S K in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARLE LINER PROLE ROUET FILET
Words starting with I Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How IKATS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#6,178 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, IKATS ranks #6,178 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
22%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

431
270
229
140
118
94
92
85
70
66
64
61
56
47
39
29
28
27
26
26
25
20
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18
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IKATS:

18% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
DROLE 5.97 bits
11.5% →
CARLE 5.42 bits
9.7% →
LINER 5.25 bits
5.9% →
PROLE 5.27 bits
5.0% →
ROUET 5.53 bits
4.0% →
CARLE 4.53 bits
3.9% →
DROLE 4.84 bits
3.6% →
FILET 4.33 bits
3.0% →
ROUET 4.60 bits
2.8% →
SPINE 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1K5A1T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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