Possible answer Not used yet C tier for first-turn info

QUASI

QUASI is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkweɪzaɪ//ˈkweɪsaɪ//ˈkwɑːzi/

Adjective

Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.

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

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 QUASI performs as a guess

QUASI is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,219 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 QUASI 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUASI 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,219 Rank among openers
Opening with QUASI 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,219 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
665
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
32
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
3 vowels
Common:
AISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
26%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUASI in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

QUASI can come back 57 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

417 answers
367 answers
346 answers
153 answers
127 answers
121 answers
92 answers
89 answers
84 answers
69 answers
64 answers
51 answers
50 answers
39 answers
37 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1A1S1I1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing QUASI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUASI:

18% chance
Suggested:
TONER
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
15% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6%
TONER 5.74 bits
15.5%
TALER 5.49 bits
14.6%
TRONE 5.32 bits
6.4%
CLOTE 4.77 bits
5.3%
TRONE 5.27 bits
5.1%
PORTE 4.85 bits
3.9%
MORNE 4.11 bits
3.7%
TRINE 4.41 bits
3.5%
CAIRN 4.40 bits
2.9%
CLOTE 3.88 bits

Research on QUASI

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUASI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,586 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.10 guesses at best and is rank #7,104 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 KWAHSEE.

Rhymes with POSSE

Related meanings

Synonyms similar

Opposites dissimilar

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUASI 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.

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).