QUASH
Yes, QUASH was the Wordle answer on May 29, 2025 (Wordle #1440).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kwɒʃ//kwɑʃ//kwɔʃ/
- Verb
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To defeat decisively, to suppress.
“The army quashed the rebellion.”
- Verb
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To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English quaschen, quasshen, cwessen, quassen, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassāre, under the influence of cassō (“to annul”), from Latin quatiō (“to shake”) Cognate with Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), Spanish quejar (“to complain”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KWAWSH.
Related meanings
Synonyms AVOID reduce void subdue invalidate
In a sentence
Firefighters worked quickly to quash the flames before they spread to nearby homes.
Use QUASH in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
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: May 29, 2025 (#1440).
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2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #936
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QUASH appeared in VEGETABLES MINUS STARTING LETTER (purple group).
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· Puzzle #833
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QUASH appeared in VEGETABLES WITH FIRST LETTER REMOVED (purple group).
How QUASH performs as a guess
QUASH 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 73.9% of games, misses completely in 26.1%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,269 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe QUASH 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 QUASH 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 QUASH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
QUASH can come back 64 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 QUASH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing QUASH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUASH.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing QUASH:
Research on QUASH
Game-tree analysis and word research for QUASH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with QUASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,880 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,671 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- QUASH 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).