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WIKIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.0% of possible answers.

Open Solver with WIKIS Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wiki

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wiki

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 WIKIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WIKIS 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 57.5% of games, misses completely in 42.5%, and leaves about 519 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,204 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

W___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__I_ W in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE TRONE RONTE TALER CARLE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.17 Entropy (bits)
519 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WIKIS 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#14,204 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WIKIS ranks #14,204 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
592
4 guesses
1,323
5 guesses
389
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
20%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

43 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1002
364
175
137
118
90
62
58
48
41
31
29
27
24
20
15
14
13
12
9
8
7
6
5
5
5
5
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIKIS:

42% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.5% →
ROATE 6.10 bits
15.4% →
STARE 5.73 bits
7.4% →
TRONE 5.21 bits
5.8% →
RONTE 4.85 bits
5.0% →
TALER 5.01 bits
3.8% →
CARLE 5.36 bits
2.6% →
DRONE 4.86 bits
2.5% →
STANE 4.23 bits
2.0% →
THANE 4.20 bits
1.7% →
DROLE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1K5I1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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