5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

KANAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of kana

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 KANAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KANAS 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 296 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,088 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

K___S K in the 1st position and S in the 5th position K__A_ K in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position KA_AS K in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, A in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET DROLE GOIER TRICE THALE
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
296 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KANAS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,088 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KANAS ranks #11,088 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
737
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

704
255
206
176
159
92
78
75
60
56
46
44
38
29
26
25
25
22
20
15
14
14
14
10
10
9
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KANAS:

30% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9% →
TOILE 6.05 bits
10.8% →
ROUET 5.55 bits
8.7% →
DROLE 5.39 bits
7.5% →
GOIER 5.43 bits
6.7% →
TRICE 4.71 bits
3.9% →
THALE 4.57 bits
3.3% →
CRUET 4.46 bits
3.2% →
COURE 4.45 bits
2.5% →
RUOTE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
GRICE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1N1A1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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