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

TAKHI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtæki/

Noun

Synonym of Przewalski's horse.

Alternative forms: taki

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Mongolian тахь (taxʹ).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use TAKHI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How TAKHI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAKHI 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,972 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 TAKHI 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.

4.35 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAKHI 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
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,972 Rank among openers
Opening with TAKHI solved every answer in the snapshot within 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 #8,972 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
820
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
20%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

TAKHI can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

489 answers
284 answers
256 answers
157 answers
151 answers
105 answers
103 answers
94 answers
66 answers
56 answers
55 answers
48 answers
43 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1K5H4I1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing TAKHI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAKHI:

21% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
12% chance
Suggested:
LINER
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
DROLE 5.99 bits
11.9% →
LINER 5.26 bits
10.7% →
DROLE 5.45 bits
6.6% →
SLYER 4.92 bits
6.3% →
SOREL 5.60 bits
4.4% →
CORSE 5.35 bits
4.3% →
LEAST 5.00 bits
3.9% →
NOISE 4.44 bits
2.8% →
ALANE 4.62 bits
2.3% →
SCARE 4.71 bits

Research on TAKHI

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAKHI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #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 TAKHI 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).