5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KANZU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A white or cream-coloured robe worn by men in the African Great Lakes region.

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 KANZU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KANZU 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 343 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,978 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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___U K in the 1st position and U in the 5th position _A__U A in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLATE SOLER TORSE GOIER GRISE
Words starting with K Words ending with U

First-turn measures

3.55 Entropy (bits)
343 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KANZU 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,978 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KANZU ranks #13,978 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
592
4 guesses
1,340
5 guesses
363
6 guesses
26
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:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
19%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

696
391
274
198
173
85
68
65
60
43
40
33
32
19
19
18
17
11
11
10
9
8
8
8
7
5
4
4
4
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KANZU:

30% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
16.6% →
SLATE 5.60 bits
11.6% →
SOLER 5.22 bits
8.4% →
TORSE 4.82 bits
7.3% →
GOIER 5.20 bits
3.6% →
GRISE 4.76 bits
2.9% →
TRICE 4.43 bits
2.8% →
CRISE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
STIRE 4.39 bits
1.8% →
CLOSE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1N1Z10U1
Total: 18 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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