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

KRONA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹəʊnə/

Noun

The official currency of Sweden.

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 KRONA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KRONA 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,445 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe KRONA 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KRONA 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,445 Rank among openers
Opening with KRONA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,445 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
897
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

KRONA can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

363 answers
318 answers
175 answers
145 answers
136 answers
102 answers
88 answers
83 answers
80 answers
67 answers
59 answers
52 answers
48 answers
41 answers
39 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5R1O1N1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing KRONA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KRONA:

15% chance
Suggested:
STILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SIREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3%
STILE 6.12 bits
13.4%
SLATE 5.75 bits
7.4%
SIREE 5.11 bits
6.1%
TARRE 4.58 bits
5.7%
TUILE 4.85 bits
4.3%
SUITE 4.98 bits
3.7%
SORER 4.33 bits
3.5%
SHULE 4.69 bits
3.4%
SPITE 4.76 bits
2.8%
SAMEL 4.63 bits

Research on KRONA

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

Optimal play

Opening with KRONA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,829 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #1,884 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KROHNUH.

Rhymes with KRONE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, KRONA is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KRONA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

In a sentence

The book was sold at auction for five hundred and eighty krona.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).