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

KATTI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of catty (“Chinese unit of weight”).

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

Use KATTI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% 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 KATTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KATTI 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 274 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,733 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 KATTI 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.

3.96 Entropy (bits)
274 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KATTI 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,733 Rank among openers
Opening with KATTI left 3 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,733 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
694
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
22%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

KATTI can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

598 answers
319 answers
315 answers
176 answers
150 answers
101 answers
97 answers
70 answers
63 answers
52 answers
42 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5A1T1T1I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing KATTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KATTI:

25% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
13% chance
Suggested:
LINER
13% chance
Suggested:
PEARL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
SOLER 5.96 bits
13.4% →
LINER 5.21 bits
13.2% →
PEARL 5.44 bits
7.4% →
SLYER 4.93 bits
6.3% →
SOREE 5.55 bits
4.2% →
SOGER 4.40 bits
4.1% →
LEAST 5.02 bits
2.9% →
ALANE 4.63 bits
2.6% →
CLOSE 4.90 bits
2.2% →
SLACK 4.30 bits

Research on KATTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with KATTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,710 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 KATTI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KATTI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).