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

KAKAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of kaka

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

Use KAKAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 78.9% 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 KAKAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KAKAS 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 59.4% of games, misses completely in 40.6%, and leaves about 502 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,679 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.00 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 KAKAS 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.

3.10 Entropy (bits)
502 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KAKAS 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.

4.00 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,679 Rank among openers
Opening with KAKAS left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 4.00 average. It ranks #14,679 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
508
4 guesses
1,285
5 guesses
489
6 guesses
39

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
22%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

KAKAS can come back 45 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

967 answers
331 answers
269 answers
215 answers
109 answers
100 answers
60 answers
53 answers
43 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
19 answers
14 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1K5A1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing KAKAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KAKAS:

41% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.6% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
13.9% →
STIRE 5.47 bits
11.3% →
ALERT 5.42 bits
9.0% →
RONTE 4.81 bits
4.6% →
THALE 4.59 bits
4.2% →
RATEL 4.48 bits
2.5% →
CRINE 4.90 bits
2.2% →
STILE 4.14 bits
1.8% →
TUILE 4.03 bits
1.2% →
CHARE 3.77 bits

Research on KAKAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with KAKAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,637 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 KAKAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.00; proven optimal play reaches 3.99. 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
KAKAS 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).