5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

KELTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname.

Proper noun

A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1494).

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 KELTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KELTY 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,788 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___Y K in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position K__T_ K in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ARISE SONAR ROAST SNAIL ALOSE SAREE
Words starting with K Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KELTY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,788 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KELTY ranks #9,788 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
25

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

370
347
216
167
146
135
120
88
51
48
41
37
36
35
34
32
31
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27
23
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22
18
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KELTY:

16% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
15% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
ARISE 5.38 bits
14.7% →
SONAR 5.89 bits
9.2% →
ROAST 5.42 bits
7.1% →
SNAIL 5.02 bits
6.2% →
SONAR 4.52 bits
5.7% →
ALOSE 4.45 bits
5.1% →
SAREE 4.91 bits
3.7% →
RANSE 4.70 bits
2.2% →
CRANK 4.33 bits
2.0% →
SONAR 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5E1L1T1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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