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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /niːd/
- Adjective
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Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.
“a kneed biped; a knobbly-kneed boy”
- Adjective
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Having angular joints like the knee.
- Verb
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simple past and past participle of knee
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How KNEED performs as a guess
KNEED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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 311 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,887 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe KNEED 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.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches KNEED in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
KNEED can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for KNEED; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing KNEED
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to KNEED.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing KNEED:
Research on KNEED
Game-tree analysis and word research for KNEED, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with KNEED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,067 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 KNEED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, because the two figures score different answer lists.
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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- KNEED sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
In a sentence
I got kneed playing soccer.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).