5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KANGA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.

Noun

A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.

Alternative forms: kangha

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 KANGA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KANGA 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 63.7% of games, misses completely in 36.3%, and leaves about 403 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,834 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___A K in the 1st position and A in the 5th position K__G_ K in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLATE TORSE RUOTE COURE HOISE
Words starting with K Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
403 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KANGA 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,834 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KANGA ranks #12,834 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
645
4 guesses
1,328
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
24
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:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
23%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

855
344
188
179
89
82
73
56
43
42
41
33
30
29
26
22
20
19
19
17
11
11
11
8
8
7
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KANGA:

36% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.3% →
TOILE 6.04 bits
14.6% →
SLATE 5.64 bits
8.0% →
TORSE 5.35 bits
7.6% →
TORSE 4.92 bits
3.8% →
RUOTE 5.15 bits
3.5% →
COURE 4.89 bits
3.1% →
HOISE 4.52 bits
2.4% →
IRADE 4.53 bits
1.8% →
SOILY 3.91 bits
1.8% →
CLOSE 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1N1G2A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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