- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 2.32 bits
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Five-letter words starting with KNE
Our Wordle guess list has 6 five-letter words that start with KNE.
6 matching words
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This list has 6 Wordle guesses; 5 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 5 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: KNEAD (June 26, 2024); KNEEL (May 30, 2023); KNELL (August 14, 2025); KNELT (October 12, 2023).
ABLET does not fit this page's clues. KNEEL keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.0 (1 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.
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Where these letters usually land
The KNE prefix fixes these letters in positions 1, 2 and 3; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- K most often the 1st letter (100% of these words).
- N most often the 2nd letter (100% of these words).
- E most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words), also 4th (50%).
Word notes
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KNEAD
To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
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Past Wordle answer: June 26, 2024.
KNEED
Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.
“a kneed biped; a knobbly-kneed boy”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
KNEEL
To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
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Past Wordle answer: May 30, 2023.
KNELL
To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
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Past Wordle answer: August 14, 2025.
KNELT
simple past and past participle of kneel.
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Past Wordle answer: October 12, 2023.
KNEES
plural of knee
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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