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

KIBLA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of qibla.

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

Use KIBLA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% 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 KIBLA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KIBLA 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 245 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,284 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 KIBLA 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
245 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KIBLA 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#8,284 Rank among openers
Opening with KIBLA 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,284 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
812
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
20%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

KIBLA can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

558 answers
385 answers
200 answers
154 answers
128 answers
127 answers
72 answers
61 answers
52 answers
50 answers
50 answers
48 answers
45 answers
39 answers
30 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5I1B3L1A1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing KIBLA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KIBLA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
TORSE 6.28 bits
16.1% →
TARSE 5.70 bits
8.4% →
TRONE 5.59 bits
6.5% →
STRAE 4.76 bits
5.4% →
RONTE 4.70 bits
5.3% →
ROUSE 5.06 bits
3.0% →
NADIR 4.64 bits
2.6% →
TRONE 4.94 bits
2.2% →
SOLDE 4.19 bits
2.1% →
SNIDE 4.24 bits

Research on KIBLA

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

Optimal play

Opening with KIBLA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,687 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,893 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).