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KHOJA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname from Gujarati

Noun

A member of a Gujarati-speaking Shiite sect who take the Aga Khan as their religious head.

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 KHOJA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KHOJA 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 360 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,125 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe KHOJA 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.

3.52 Entropy (bits)
360 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KHOJA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,125 Rank among openers
Opening with KHOJA left 1 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 3.91 average. It ranks #14,125 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
589
4 guesses
1,317
5 guesses
379
6 guesses
34
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:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
19%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

KHOJA can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

650 answers
548 answers
259 answers
147 answers
98 answers
95 answers
68 answers
68 answers
60 answers
59 answers
47 answers
40 answers
32 answers
28 answers
24 answers
18 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5H4O1J8A1
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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

Try next

SLIER TARSE RONTE SENOR CRUET TALON

Strategy after playing KHOJA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KHOJA:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
23% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.4% →
SLIER 6.01 bits
23.1% →
TARSE 5.47 bits
10.9% →
RONTE 5.18 bits
6.2% →
SENOR 4.45 bits
4.1% →
CRUET 4.50 bits
4.0% →
TALON 4.55 bits
2.9% →
HEART 4.53 bits
2.9% →
SLICE 5.10 bits
2.5% →
CARSE 4.33 bits
2.5% →
TRICE 4.92 bits

Research on KHOJA

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

Optimal play

Opening with KHOJA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,985 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 #6,766 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 3.91, 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 KOHJUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KHOJA 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).