5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

QILAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of qila

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 QILAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QILAS 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,066 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Q___S Q in the 1st position and S in the 5th position Q__A_ Q in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE PORTE ROUET PEART ALATE CONTE
Words starting with Q Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QILAS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,066 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QILAS ranks #11,066 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
773
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

451
321
202
170
147
122
113
111
69
67
55
52
52
42
34
33
28
25
23
23
22
17
17
14
13
10
9
9
8
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QILAS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
TRONE 6.02 bits
13.6% →
TRONE 5.43 bits
8.6% →
PORTE 5.56 bits
7.2% →
TRONE 5.60 bits
6.2% →
ROUET 5.08 bits
5.2% →
PEART 4.86 bits
4.8% →
ALATE 4.42 bits
4.7% →
CONTE 4.60 bits
2.9% →
TRONE 4.37 bits
2.8% →
NADIR 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10I1L1A1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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