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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

KEYER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who, or that which, keys.

Noun

A device for signalling by pressing keys or switches.

Adjective

comparative form of key: more key

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 KEYER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KEYER 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 235 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,288 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

K___R K in the 1st position and R in the 5th position K__E_ K in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in KEYER.

First-turn measures

All four describe KEYER 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.

4.18 Entropy (bits)
235 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KEYER 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,288 Rank among openers
Opening with KEYER left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,288 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
715
4 guesses
1,274
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
27%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

KEYER can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

546 answers
294 answers
255 answers
217 answers
134 answers
104 answers
77 answers
74 answers
67 answers
66 answers
54 answers
39 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5E1Y4E1R1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLANT COAST SAULT ALIEN SHALT

Strategy after playing KEYER

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to KEYER.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KEYER:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
SAINT 6.15 bits
12.4% →
SLANT 5.64 bits
10.7% →
COAST 5.41 bits
9.1% →
SAULT 4.69 bits
5.6% →
COAST 4.85 bits
4.4% →
SAINT 3.59 bits
3.2% →
ALIEN 4.39 bits
3.1% →
SHALT 4.45 bits
2.8% →
CAULK 4.55 bits
2.8% →
CARRY 4.06 bits

Research on KEYER

Game-tree analysis and word research for KEYER, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with KEYER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,010 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with KEYER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82; proven optimal play reaches 3.81. 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KYUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, KEYER is a kind of device or explanation.

Synonyms name central describe identify PAINT discover

Opposites unimportant

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
KEYER sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).