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

KUNDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 KUNDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KUNDS 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 320 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,537 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe KUNDS 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.

3.94 Entropy (bits)
320 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KUNDS 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% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#8,537 Rank among openers
Opening with KUNDS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,537 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
805
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
18
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:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
18%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

KUNDS can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

738 answers
313 answers
190 answers
175 answers
100 answers
87 answers
86 answers
67 answers
64 answers
52 answers
46 answers
42 answers
36 answers
32 answers
30 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KUNDS:

31% chance
Suggested:
TALER
13% chance
Suggested:
SPATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3%
TALER 6.22 bits
13.3%
SPATE 5.76 bits
8.1%
ARIEL 5.61 bits
7.4%
ARIEL 5.78 bits
4.2%
TROPE 5.28 bits
3.7%
BALER 4.48 bits
3.6%
CAGEY 4.68 bits
2.8%
CARLE 5.13 bits
2.7%
STEIN 4.74 bits
2.2%
SHART 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5U1N1D2S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

The science of KUNDS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about KUNDS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with KUNDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses — rank #9,038 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with KUNDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.77 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it KUHNDZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.