5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KHAYA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A native house or hut.

Noun

Servants' quarters separated from the main house.

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 KHAYA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KHAYA 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 64.1% of games, misses completely in 35.9%, and leaves about 407 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,180 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___A K in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _H__A H in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE TALER TOILE STIRE CLOTE SALTY
Words starting with K Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.48 Entropy (bits)
407 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KHAYA 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,180 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KHAYA ranks #14,180 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
595
4 guesses
1,307
5 guesses
381
6 guesses
39
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
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
21%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

53 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

847
349
217
163
130
101
78
71
35
33
33
29
27
27
21
21
21
19
18
15
15
11
8
7
7
5
5
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KHAYA:

36% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.9% →
RIONE 6.00 bits
14.8% →
TALER 5.53 bits
9.2% →
TOILE 4.66 bits
6.9% →
STIRE 5.08 bits
5.5% →
CLOTE 4.97 bits
4.3% →
SALTY 4.09 bits
3.3% →
STIRE 5.28 bits
3.0% →
CRISE 4.89 bits
1.5% →
CARTE 4.21 bits
1.4% →
MOILE 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5H4A1Y4A1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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