5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

KITTY

KITTY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/[ˈkʰɪɾi][ˈkʰɘ.ɾiː]

Noun

A young cat; a kitten.

“He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.”

Noun

An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.

“Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty!”

Alternative forms: kittie, kbity, kibty, kity

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 KITTY performs as a guess

KITTY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.8% of games, misses completely in 35.2%, and leaves about 383 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,158 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__T_ K in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SOARE CRANE SORAL RANCE CARLE SNARE
Words starting with K Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.63 Entropy (bits)
383 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KITTY 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,158 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KITTY ranks #13,158 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
691
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
348
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:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
30%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B A T E D
K I T T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches KITTY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

829
256
251
212
107
98
91
56
56
35
29
28
27
24
24
22
19
16
14
14
14
12
10
10
7
7
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KITTY:

35% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.2% →
SOARE 6.15 bits
10.9% →
CRANE 5.47 bits
10.6% →
SOARE 5.67 bits
9.0% →
SORAL 4.80 bits
4.5% →
RANCE 4.88 bits
4.2% →
CARLE 5.21 bits
3.9% →
SNARE 4.54 bits
2.4% →
SOARE 4.82 bits
2.4% →
CANER 4.47 bits
1.5% →
PALER 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5I1T1T1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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