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

KUSTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of kushti.

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 KUSTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KUSTI 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,939 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 KUSTI 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
251 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KUSTI 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,939 Rank among openers
Opening with KUSTI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,939 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ISTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
17%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

KUSTI can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

617 answers
302 answers
191 answers
178 answers
105 answers
97 answers
87 answers
83 answers
67 answers
60 answers
52 answers
48 answers
47 answers
33 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5U1S1T1I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing KUSTI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KUSTI:

26% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
8% chance
Suggested:
PARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0%
CARLE 6.14 bits
12.7%
LIANE 5.28 bits
8.0%
PARLE 5.53 bits
7.5%
TALER 5.35 bits
4.4%
TIARE 4.42 bits
4.1%
GRONE 5.10 bits
3.7%
STALE 4.81 bits
3.5%
MARLE 4.45 bits
2.8%
BRACE 5.22 bits
2.5%
SNIPE 4.72 bits

Research on KUSTI

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

Optimal play

Opening with KUSTI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,081 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 KUSTI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 KUHSTEE. 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.