5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KESTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of kest

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 KESTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KESTS 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 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,865 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 CARLE SNARL PAIRE
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KESTS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,865 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KESTS ranks #12,865 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
660
4 guesses
1,342
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
27
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
20%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

568
416
203
144
136
125
117
90
66
58
41
38
36
32
30
21
18
14
13
12
12
12
12
12
11
11
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KESTS:

24% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY
18% 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
17.6% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
8.6% →
TAROT 5.12 bits
6.1% →
CARLE 4.63 bits
5.8% →
SNARL 5.00 bits
5.3% →
PAIRE 4.72 bits
5.0% →
TALER 4.68 bits
3.8% →
ROAST 4.58 bits
2.8% →
CAULK 4.92 bits
2.5% →
ROANY 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5E1S1T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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