5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

KNISH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəˈnɪʃ//knɪʃ/

Noun

An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a shell of baked or fried dough

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 KNISH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KNISH 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 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 274 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,667 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___H K in the 1st position and H in the 5th position K__S_ K in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _N__H N in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ALTER ROATE TILDE PARTE TRADE RUOTE
Words starting with K Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.27 Entropy (bits)
274 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KNISH 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,667 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KNISH ranks #5,667 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

697
196
190
189
96
92
83
72
64
61
42
41
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39
28
25
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KNISH:

30% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.6% →
ALTER 6.14 bits
8.3% →
ROATE 5.37 bits
8.1% →
TILDE 5.22 bits
8.0% →
PARTE 5.73 bits
4.1% →
TRADE 4.89 bits
3.9% →
ROATE 5.00 bits
3.5% →
ROATE 5.58 bits
3.1% →
RUOTE 4.73 bits
2.7% →
CARLE 5.14 bits
2.6% →
TARGE 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5N1I1S1H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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