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

KAMIK

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmɪk//ˈkæmɪk/

Noun

A mukluk.

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

Use KAMIK in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 84.6% 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 KAMIK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KAMIK 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 366 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,814 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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 KAMIK 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.

3.53 Entropy (bits)
366 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KAMIK 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,814 Rank among openers
Opening with KAMIK left 3 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 3.89 average. It ranks #13,814 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
623
4 guesses
1,307
5 guesses
365
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

KAMIK can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

728 answers
387 answers
342 answers
213 answers
84 answers
81 answers
59 answers
48 answers
43 answers
38 answers
38 answers
37 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1M3I1K5
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing KAMIK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KAMIK:

31% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
TORSE 6.17 bits
16.2% →
SLATE 5.61 bits
14.3% →
TRINE 5.38 bits
8.9% →
TORSE 4.75 bits
3.5% →
ROUTE 5.28 bits
3.4% →
CLOTE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
REALM 4.66 bits
2.0% →
SILER 4.24 bits
1.8% →
SLANT 4.06 bits
1.6% →
POISE 4.33 bits

Research on KAMIK

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

Optimal play

Opening with KAMIK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,751 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,699 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KAMIK 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).