5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KANJI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkænd͡ʒi//ˈkaːnd͡ʒi//ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/

Noun

The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.

“Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.”

Noun

Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

“I know about a thousand kanji.”

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 KANJI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KANJI 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,373 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___I K in the 1st position and I in the 5th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL REAST TILDE TORSE SORED GRISE
Words starting with K Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.67 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KANJI 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#13,373 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KANJI ranks #13,373 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
617
4 guesses
1,365
5 guesses
312
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
19%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

640
373
327
189
138
96
66
63
53
45
43
41
29
29
29
28
26
17
13
12
11
11
9
8
7
4
4
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KANJI:

27% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
REAST
14% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
SOREL 6.08 bits
15.8% →
REAST 5.59 bits
13.9% →
TILDE 5.30 bits
8.0% →
TORSE 4.76 bits
5.9% →
SORED 5.30 bits
4.1% →
GRISE 4.45 bits
2.8% →
TRAIL 4.59 bits
2.7% →
GLARE 4.79 bits
2.2% →
CRUSE 4.85 bits
1.9% →
CLOSE 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1N1J8I1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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