5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KIKES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of kike

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of kike

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.

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___S K in the 1st position and S in the 5th position K__E_ K in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LEARE SLART TRAIN SOLAR SALTY
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.86 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KIKES 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,047 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KIKES ranks #14,047 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
588
4 guesses
1,339
5 guesses
362
6 guesses
32
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:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

50 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

527
384
210
203
194
145
99
95
59
56
44
34
33
31
29
26
23
22
19
15
14
12
9
9
6
6
6
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KIKES:

22% chance
Suggested:
TALON
16% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
TALON 5.74 bits
16.3% →
LEARE 5.50 bits
8.9% →
SLART 5.36 bits
8.6% →
TRAIN 5.40 bits
8.2% →
SOLAR 4.09 bits
6.1% →
SLART 4.99 bits
4.2% →
SALTY 3.71 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 4.49 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.43 bits
2.4% →
CLARY 4.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5I1K5E1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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