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KAPPA

KAPPA is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 73.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkæpə/

Noun

The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

Noun

A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 KAPPA performs as a guess

KAPPA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 53.6% of games, misses completely in 46.4%, and leaves about 622 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,667 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 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.
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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__P_ K in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in KAPPA.

First-turn measures

All four describe KAPPA 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.

2.86 Entropy (bits)
622 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
73.8% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KAPPA 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.

3.99 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,667 Rank among openers
Opening with KAPPA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.99 average. It ranks #14,667 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
502
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
484
6 guesses
38
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
20%
All gray
46%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
G A M M A
K A P P A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches KAPPA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

KAPPA can come back 49 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1102 answers
408 answers
231 answers
148 answers
95 answers
54 answers
50 answers
35 answers
30 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1P3P3A1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TOILE ALERT TRINE TOISE CRUSE CLOSE

Strategy after playing KAPPA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KAPPA:

46% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
17% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

46.4% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
17.2% →
ALERT 5.48 bits
9.7% →
TRINE 4.78 bits
6.2% →
TOISE 5.37 bits
4.0% →
CRUSE 4.93 bits
2.3% →
CLOSE 4.31 bits
2.1% →
SLANE 4.77 bits
1.5% →
MOIRE 4.23 bits
1.3% →
LOURE 4.23 bits
1.1% →
SILER 4.21 bits

Research on KAPPA

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

Optimal play

Opening with KAPPA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,646 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.13 guesses at best and is rank #7,263 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.99; proven optimal play reaches 3.99. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAPUH.

Rhymes with NAPPA

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, KAPPA is a kind of letter.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KAPPA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).