5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

KENTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of kent

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of kent

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 KENTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KENTS 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 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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

MORAL RAILE TAROT SHALY SPARE GROIN
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KENTS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#5,800 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KENTS ranks #5,800 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
875
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
23%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

398
312
149
132
115
112
104
100
78
76
58
48
47
45
37
36
35
31
29
28
27
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25
21
20
17
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16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KENTS:

17% chance
Suggested:
MORAL
13% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
TAROT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
MORAL 5.81 bits
13.2% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
6.3% →
TAROT 5.14 bits
5.6% →
SHALY 5.06 bits
4.9% →
SPARE 4.83 bits
4.7% →
GROIN 5.31 bits
4.4% →
LEARE 4.76 bits
4.2% →
TALER 4.76 bits
3.3% →
ROAST 4.66 bits
3.2% →
ARIEL 4.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5E1N1T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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