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

QORMA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of korma.

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 QORMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QORMA 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 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 236 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,577 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe QORMA 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
236 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QORMA 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,577 Rank among openers
Opening with QORMA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,577 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
23%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

QORMA can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

490 answers
400 answers
226 answers
198 answers
146 answers
134 answers
103 answers
65 answers
60 answers
51 answers
51 answers
41 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10O1R1M3A1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing QORMA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QORMA:

21% chance
Suggested:
STILE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6%
STILE 6.13 bits
16.8%
SLATE 5.67 bits
9.5%
TRIED 5.24 bits
8.3%
LEAST 4.66 bits
6.1%
STILE 5.02 bits
5.6%
TUILE 4.36 bits
4.3%
TRINE 4.39 bits
2.7%
SHUTE 4.65 bits
2.5%
TALON 4.49 bits
2.1%
SIDEY 4.77 bits

Research on QORMA

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

Optimal play

Opening with QORMA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,111 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,689 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAWRMUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.