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

KYNDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of kind.

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 KYNDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KYNDE 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 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 231 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,635 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 KYNDE 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.

4.20 Entropy (bits)
231 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KYNDE 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#9,635 Rank among openers
Opening with KYNDE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,635 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
26%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

KYNDE can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

522 answers
316 answers
279 answers
181 answers
157 answers
94 answers
82 answers
75 answers
68 answers
49 answers
48 answers
43 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5Y4N1D2E1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing KYNDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KYNDE:

22% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0%
ROAST 6.14 bits
13.3%
ROAST 5.28 bits
11.8%
SLART 5.35 bits
7.6%
SOLAR 4.96 bits
6.6%
TRAIN 5.34 bits
4.0%
ALOUD 5.00 bits
3.5%
ARIEL 4.70 bits
3.2%
LATER 4.51 bits
2.9%
COAST 4.56 bits
2.1%
TONIC 4.07 bits

Research on KYNDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with KYNDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,321 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 KYNDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, 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

One syllable Say it KYND. 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.