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KAHAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The local governing body of a former European Jewish community, administering religious, legal and communal affairs.

Noun

A congregation.

Alternative forms: qahal

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 KAHAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KAHAL 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 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 342 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,509 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

K___L K in the 1st position and L in the 5th position K__A_ K in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe KAHAL 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.

3.83 Entropy (bits)
342 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KAHAL 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,509 Rank among openers
Opening with KAHAL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,509 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
700
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
24%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

KAHAL can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

784 answers
232 answers
211 answers
196 answers
174 answers
87 answers
64 answers
59 answers
55 answers
53 answers
47 answers
39 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1H4A1L1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RIONE TOILE TIARE TORSE TRINE PLATE

Strategy after playing KAHAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KAHAL:

33% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
RIONE 6.11 bits
9.8% →
TOILE 5.17 bits
8.9% →
TIARE 5.47 bits
8.3% →
TORSE 5.62 bits
7.3% →
TRINE 4.94 bits
3.7% →
PLATE 4.52 bits
2.7% →
CRINE 4.86 bits
2.5% →
SIREE 4.05 bits
2.3% →
TRODE 4.47 bits
2.2% →
STARE 4.48 bits

Research on KAHAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with KAHAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,444 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,559 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it KUHHAHL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KAHAL 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).