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

QUANT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kwɒnt/

Noun

Quantitative analysis or research.

Noun

A quantitative analyst.

Adjective

Clipping of quantifiable.

Adjective

Clipping of quantitative.

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 QUANT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUANT 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,039 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 QUANT 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.

4.33 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUANT 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,039 Rank among openers
Opening with QUANT left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,039 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
793
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
255
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

QUANT can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

533 answers
295 answers
166 answers
157 answers
153 answers
98 answers
97 answers
96 answers
95 answers
93 answers
62 answers
44 answers
35 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1A1N1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing QUANT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUANT:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
12% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5%
SOLER 5.94 bits
12.4%
CARLE 5.39 bits
7.0%
CRISE 5.06 bits
6.6%
SHORE 5.44 bits
6.4%
SILER 5.15 bits
4.1%
SOCLE 5.23 bits
4.1%
SLYER 4.30 bits
4.0%
TARTE 4.73 bits
4.0%
CANOE 4.52 bits
3.9%
SHIER 5.16 bits

Research on QUANT

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUANT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,594 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 QUANT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

One syllable Say it KWANT.

Rhymes with PLANT GRANT CHANT SLANT SCANT

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUANT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).