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

KOIWI

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

No dictionary definition for KOIWI is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use KOIWI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 80.6% 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 KOIWI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KOIWI 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 61.4% of games, misses completely in 38.6%, and leaves about 463 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,392 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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 KOIWI 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.

3.22 Entropy (bits)
463 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KOIWI 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#14,392 Rank among openers
Opening with KOIWI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.94 average. It ranks #14,392 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
550
4 guesses
1,350
5 guesses
407
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
25%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

KOIWI can come back 44 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

921 answers
282 answers
274 answers
216 answers
176 answers
101 answers
65 answers
47 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
25 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5O1I1W4I1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing KOIWI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KOIWI:

39% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
RATEL
11% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.6% →
TARSE 6.26 bits
11.8% →
RATEL 5.31 bits
11.5% →
TARSE 5.31 bits
9.1% →
TALER 4.57 bits
7.4% →
GRATE 5.02 bits
4.2% →
SLANE 5.13 bits
2.7% →
TALER 5.07 bits
2.0% →
PINTO 4.09 bits
1.3% →
DROLE 3.97 bits
1.3% →
CRUSE 3.76 bits

Research on KOIWI

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

Optimal play

Opening with KOIWI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,403 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.11 guesses at best and is rank #7,151 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.94, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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).