5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KULFI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling ice cream.

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 KULFI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KULFI 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 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 351 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,235 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___I K in the 1st position and I in the 5th position K__F_ K in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _U__I U in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRONE SOARE TORSE MORSE RAILE
Words starting with K Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
351 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KULFI 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,235 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KULFI ranks #12,235 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
327
6 guesses
26
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:
ILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
15%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

749
363
262
158
103
99
80
63
49
45
34
25
23
22
21
19
18
18
14
12
11
11
11
11
10
9
9
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KULFI:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
TARSE 6.38 bits
15.4% →
TRONE 5.51 bits
11.1% →
SOARE 5.29 bits
6.7% →
TORSE 5.42 bits
4.4% →
MORSE 4.56 bits
4.2% →
RAILE 4.47 bits
3.4% →
TRACE 5.30 bits
2.7% →
SAMEY 4.65 bits
2.1% →
FRATE 4.73 bits
1.9% →
AROSE 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5U1L1F4I1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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