5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

KNEED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /niːd/

Adjective

Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.

“a kneed biped; a knobbly-kneed boy”

Adjective

Having angular joints like the knee.

Verb

simple past and past participle of knee

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 KNEED performs as a guess

KNEED 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,887 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___D K in the 1st position and D in the 5th position K__E_ K in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__D N in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART COAST SOLAR DROIT CLARY
Words starting with K Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
310 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KNEED 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,887 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KNEED ranks #10,887 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
U N F E D
K N E E D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches KNEED in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

706
350
221
133
93
87
75
68
56
55
39
36
31
30
27
24
22
22
21
20
19
15
14
12
10
10
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KNEED:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9% →
ROAST 6.03 bits
14.8% →
SLART 5.67 bits
9.4% →
COAST 5.13 bits
5.6% →
SOLAR 4.41 bits
3.9% →
DROIT 4.89 bits
3.7% →
CLARY 4.76 bits
3.2% →
RAILE 4.44 bits
2.9% →
TIARE 4.54 bits
2.4% →
SHART 4.93 bits
2.3% →
ALURE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5N1E1E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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