KEEVE
KEEVE is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kiːv/
- Noun
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A bleaching vat; a kier.
- Noun
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A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
- Verb
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To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
- Verb
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To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
Alternative forms: kieve, kive
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English kive, from Old English cȳf (“vat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Related to French cuve. Doublet of coupe, cup, and hive.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
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As an opener, it rules out about 74.9% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →How KEEVE performs as a guess
Wordle accepts KEEVE 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 53.5% of games, misses completely in 46.5%, and leaves about 598 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,719 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.02 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe KEEVE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How KEEVE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
KEEVE can come back 45 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for KEEVE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing KEEVE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to KEEVE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing KEEVE:
Research on KEEVE
Game-tree analysis and word research for KEEVE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with KEEVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.01 guesses and ranks #14,721 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.21 guesses at best and is rank #7,402 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 4.02; proven optimal play reaches 4.01. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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).