QUAKE
Yes, QUAKE was the Wordle answer on July 24, 2025 (Wordle #1496).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kweɪk/
- Noun
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A trembling or shaking.
“We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.”
- Noun
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An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
“California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.”
- Verb
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To tremble or shake.
“I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.”
- Verb
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To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), itself likely of imitative origin. Related to Old English cweċċan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin vexō (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KWAYK.
Rhymes with BREAK SHAKE SNAKE STAKE AWAKE
Related meanings
Synonyms earthquake tremor
In a sentence
They will quake with fear.
The quake damaged many old buildings.
Use QUAKE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.
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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 24, 2025 (#1496).
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See what the public sample says →How QUAKE performs as a guess
QUAKE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,112 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe QUAKE 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 QUAKE 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 QUAKE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
QUAKE can come back 56 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 QUAKE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing QUAKE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUAKE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing QUAKE:
Research on QUAKE
Game-tree analysis and word research for QUAKE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with QUAKE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,645 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 QUAKE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.91; proven optimal play reaches 3.89. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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
- QUAKE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.