5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

QUAIL

Yes, QUAIL was the Wordle answer on June 15, 2025 (Wordle #1457).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kweɪl//ˈkweɪ.əl/

Verb

To waste away; to fade, to wither.

Verb

To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.

Noun

Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

Noun

The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Alternative forms: queal, quele

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 15, 2025 (#1457).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How QUAIL performs as a guess

QUAIL 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,353 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___L Q in the 1st position and L in the 5th position Q__I_ Q in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__L U in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TONER TRINE STORE TRONE SOCLE
Words starting with Q Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUAIL 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,353 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUAIL ranks #12,353 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
37
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
3 vowels
Common:
AILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
31%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A V A I L
Q U A I L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUAIL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

430
296
291
180
142
118
101
98
75
71
52
48
46
44
38
35
33
26
18
16
15
15
13
10
10
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9
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUAIL:

18% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TONER
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
TORSE 5.97 bits
12.6% →
TONER 5.37 bits
12.3% →
TRINE 5.40 bits
7.6% →
STORE 4.98 bits
6.0% →
TRONE 5.45 bits
5.0% →
SOCLE 4.75 bits
4.3% →
SALLE 4.61 bits
4.2% →
MORSE 4.40 bits
3.2% →
STILE 4.31 bits
3.0% →
SONCE 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1A1I1L1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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