5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

KIPES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of kipe

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of kipe

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 KIPES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KIPES 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 191 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,564 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.

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 TRAIN SOLAR SAULT SHART
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
191 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KIPES 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,564 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KIPES ranks #8,564 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
24%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

451
331
174
170
166
116
86
84
64
50
48
45
42
35
31
27
27
27
26
22
22
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19
16
14
12
12
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KIPES:

19% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
TALON 5.80 bits
14.0% →
LEARE 5.52 bits
7.4% →
TRAIN 5.38 bits
7.2% →
SOLAR 4.12 bits
7.0% →
SAULT 5.34 bits
4.9% →
SHART 4.97 bits
3.6% →
DIRTY 3.93 bits
3.6% →
TRIDE 4.29 bits
2.7% →
POUTY 4.80 bits
2.1% →
CLARY 4.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5I1P3E1S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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