5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

KEETS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of keet

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 KEETS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KEETS 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 75.9% of games, misses completely in 24.1%, and leaves about 241 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,064 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

K___S K in the 1st position and S in the 5th position K__T_ K in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LAIRY RAILE TAROT SNARL SOLAR CLARY
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
241 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KEETS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,064 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KEETS ranks #11,064 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
737
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
24
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
25%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

568
344
203
174
110
95
93
78
66
58
42
40
34
29
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26
25
21
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KEETS:

24% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY
15% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TAROT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.1% →
LAIRY 5.72 bits
14.6% →
RAILE 5.30 bits
8.6% →
TAROT 5.12 bits
7.4% →
SNARL 5.01 bits
4.7% →
SOLAR 4.57 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 5.00 bits
3.9% →
ROAST 4.63 bits
3.3% →
TALER 4.65 bits
2.8% →
CAULK 4.92 bits
2.5% →
ROANY 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5E1E1T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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