Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

KAREE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A South African sumac

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use KAREE in a puzzle

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

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe KAREE 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,790 Rank among openers
Opening with KAREE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It 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

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

KAREE can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

443 answers
190 answers
149 answers
142 answers
122 answers
111 answers
107 answers
92 answers
73 answers
65 answers
59 answers
57 answers
57 answers
54 answers
43 answers
41 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers

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.

Strategy after playing KAREE

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

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 5.65 bits
8.0% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
6.2% →
DROIT 4.99 bits
6.0% →
SONLY 4.52 bits
5.1% →
SOILY 4.75 bits
4.7% →
HEIST 4.82 bits
4.5% →
TRAIN 4.21 bits
3.9% →
SOILY 3.51 bits
3.1% →
DEALT 4.77 bits
2.7% →
OLDEN 4.33 bits

Research on KAREE

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

Optimal play

Opening with KAREE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,193 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with KAREE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).