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

QADIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of qadi

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use QADIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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 QADIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QADIS 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 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,651 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe QADIS 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QADIS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,651 Rank among openers
Opening with QADIS left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,651 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,264
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

QADIS can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

505 answers
288 answers
240 answers
234 answers
194 answers
136 answers
100 answers
99 answers
60 answers
60 answers
56 answers
49 answers
42 answers
32 answers
24 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10A1D2I1S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing QADIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QADIS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TONER
12% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3%
TONER 5.95 bits
12.1%
ALERT 5.56 bits
10.1%
TRINE 5.39 bits
9.9%
PORTE 5.50 bits
8.2%
TONER 4.76 bits
5.7%
THALE 4.74 bits
4.2%
STILE 4.41 bits
4.2%
DRONE 5.05 bits
2.5%
CONTE 4.95 bits
2.5%
DROLE 4.71 bits

Research on QADIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with QADIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,401 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 QADIS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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
QADIS 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).