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

KAIMS

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

No dictionary definition for KAIMS 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 KAIMS 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 KAIMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KAIMS 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,266 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe KAIMS 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KAIMS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,266 Rank among openers
Opening with KAIMS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,266 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
831
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
28%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

KAIMS can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

497 answers
271 answers
211 answers
206 answers
164 answers
121 answers
108 answers
73 answers
54 answers
51 answers
49 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
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12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1I1M3S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing KAIMS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KAIMS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
TRONE 5.93 bits
11.4% →
ALERT 5.61 bits
8.9% →
PORTE 5.55 bits
8.6% →
RONTE 5.23 bits
6.9% →
RONTE 4.76 bits
5.1% →
TRONE 4.98 bits
4.5% →
STALE 4.92 bits
3.1% →
LOURE 4.88 bits
2.3% →
TRAIL 4.69 bits
2.1% →
STONE 4.11 bits

Research on KAIMS

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

Optimal play

Opening with KAIMS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,469 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,081 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).