5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KIKAY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A flirtatious girl or woman.

Noun

A girl or woman interested in beauty products and fashion.

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 KIKAY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KIKAY 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 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,562 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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___Y K in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position K__A_ K in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TARSE TRINE DROLE RONTE SOREL
Words starting with K Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.53 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KIKAY 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,562 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KIKAY ranks #14,562 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
525
4 guesses
1,346
5 guesses
422
6 guesses
34
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
30%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

46 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

649
456
272
160
134
118
102
97
47
47
39
32
25
19
17
15
13
12
11
10
8
8
8
8
7
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5
5
4
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KIKAY:

28% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.5% →
TORSE 6.23 bits
19.3% →
TARSE 5.44 bits
11.5% →
TRINE 5.44 bits
6.8% →
DROLE 4.83 bits
5.7% →
RONTE 4.87 bits
5.0% →
SOREL 4.71 bits
4.3% →
TRAIN 4.59 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 3.98 bits
2.0% →
CLOSE 4.69 bits
2.0% →
CRUSE 3.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5I1K5A1Y4
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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