5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KERRY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɛɹi/

Proper noun

A county of Ireland. County seat: Tralee.

Proper noun

A village and community in Powys, Wales, originally in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO1489). Welsh spelling: Ceri.

Noun

An animal belonging to a rare breed of dairy cattle, native to Ireland.

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 KERRY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KERRY 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 263 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,122 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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__R_ K in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLANT AINEE SAULT TRAIN THALE
Words starting with K Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
263 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KERRY 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,122 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KERRY ranks #13,122 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
687
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
344
6 guesses
26
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
1 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
34%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

542
418
213
203
174
116
66
60
60
42
36
34
33
26
24
23
23
22
21
18
18
15
15
11
11
10
9
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KERRY:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
18% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
SAINT 6.15 bits
17.7% →
SLANT 5.63 bits
9.0% →
AINEE 4.36 bits
8.6% →
SAULT 4.66 bits
7.4% →
TRAIN 5.05 bits
4.9% →
THALE 4.50 bits
2.8% →
CAULK 4.54 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.81 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.83 bits
1.8% →
LATER 3.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5E1R1R1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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