5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

KAREE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A South African sumac

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 KAREE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KAREE 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,790 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___E K in the 1st position and E in the 5th position K__E_ K in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SLANT DROIT SONLY HEIST TRAIN
Words starting with K Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KAREE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,790 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KAREE ranks #10,790 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
740
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
296
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
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
45%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

438
187
146
141
122
110
107
92
73
62
59
57
56
54
43
41
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KAREE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
6% chance
Suggested:
DROIT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
7.9% →
SLANT 5.32 bits
6.2% →
DROIT 4.99 bits
6.0% →
SONLY 4.51 bits
5.2% →
SOILY 4.75 bits
4.7% →
HEIST 4.79 bits
4.5% →
TRAIN 4.21 bits
3.9% →
SOILY 3.51 bits
3.1% →
DEALT 4.77 bits
2.6% →
OLDEN 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1R1E1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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