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

KHADI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of khaddar.

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 KHADI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KHADI 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,696 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

K___I K in the 1st position and I in the 5th position K__D_ K in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _H__I H in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe KHADI 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
249 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KHADI 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
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#10,696 Rank among openers
Opening with KHADI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,696 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
21%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

KHADI can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

534 answers
368 answers
314 answers
139 answers
107 answers
102 answers
77 answers
76 answers
58 answers
56 answers
46 answers
42 answers
42 answers
36 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
13 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5H4A1D2I1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SOREL TALER TRINE STORE DRONE CRUET

Strategy after playing KHADI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KHADI:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
16% chance
Suggested:
TALER
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
SOREL 6.15 bits
15.5% →
TALER 5.61 bits
13.2% →
TRINE 5.33 bits
5.9% →
STORE 4.99 bits
4.5% →
DRONE 5.19 bits
4.3% →
CRUET 5.01 bits
3.2% →
CAIRN 4.42 bits
3.2% →
DROLE 4.58 bits
2.4% →
CLOSE 4.84 bits
2.4% →
TORSE 5.19 bits

Research on KHADI

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

Optimal play

Opening with KHADI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,840 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 KHADI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAHDEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, KHADI is a kind of material.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KHADI sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).