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

TIKKA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɪk.ə//tiː.kə/

Noun

A marinade made from various aromatic spices usually with a yoghurt base; often used in Indian cuisine prior to grilling in a tandoor.

Noun

Alternative form of tilak (“Hindu caste mark on forehead”).

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 TIKKA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TIKKA 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 296 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,261 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___A T in the 1st position and A in the 5th position T__K_ T in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in TIKKA.

First-turn measures

All four describe TIKKA 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.

3.77 Entropy (bits)
296 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TIKKA 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#13,261 Rank among openers
Opening with TIKKA left 2 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 3.86 average. It ranks #13,261 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
653
4 guesses
1,302
5 guesses
341
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
20%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

TIKKA can come back 56 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

592 answers
452 answers
201 answers
189 answers
168 answers
123 answers
84 answers
79 answers
57 answers
44 answers
41 answers
38 answers
37 answers
37 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
15 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1I1K5K5A1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SOLER CARLE CRINE SOREL SCALE SONDE

Strategy after playing TIKKA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TIKKA:

25% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
19% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
SOLER 5.96 bits
19.0% →
CARLE 5.52 bits
8.5% →
CRINE 5.28 bits
8.0% →
SOREL 5.54 bits
7.1% →
SCALE 4.99 bits
5.2% →
SONDE 4.59 bits
3.5% →
DRAIN 4.43 bits
3.3% →
SLIER 4.54 bits
2.4% →
SHOER 4.89 bits
1.9% →
FILTH 3.34 bits

Research on TIKKA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TIKKA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,302 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,450 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 TIHKUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TIKKA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).