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

KHAZI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːzi/

Noun

An outhouse or lavatory: a place used for urination and defecation.

Noun

A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation (also figurative).

“Well, that plan's down the khazi.”

Alternative forms: carsey, carsy, karsey, karsy

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 KHAZI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KHAZI 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 72.2% of games, misses completely in 27.8%, and leaves about 350 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,169 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe KHAZI 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.

3.51 Entropy (bits)
350 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KHAZI 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,169 Rank among openers
Opening with KHAZI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.91 average. It ranks #14,169 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
604
4 guesses
1,308
5 guesses
393
6 guesses
27
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)
72%
Green tile
20%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

KHAZI can come back 46 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

660 answers
417 answers
394 answers
161 answers
111 answers
97 answers
60 answers
58 answers
45 answers
44 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5H4A1Z10I1
Total: 21 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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

Strategy after playing KHAZI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KHAZI:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
18% chance
Suggested:
TALER
17% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.8%
SOLER 6.01 bits
17.6%
TALER 5.55 bits
16.6%
TRINE 5.32 bits
6.8%
STURE 5.03 bits
4.7%
TRUCE 5.02 bits
4.1%
SAINT 4.34 bits
2.5%
CRUSE 4.80 bits
2.4%
TORSE 5.22 bits
1.9%
GIRTH 3.67 bits
1.9%
CARET 4.24 bits

Research on KHAZI

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

Optimal play

Opening with KHAZI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,092 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,774 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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 CHAHZEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.