5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

QUATS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of quat

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of quat

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 QUATS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUATS 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 231 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,509 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___S Q in the 1st position and S in the 5th position Q__T_ Q in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARLE SPINE THEIR DRICE TALER
Words starting with Q Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
231 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUATS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,509 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUATS ranks #11,509 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
746
4 guesses
1,264
5 guesses
276
6 guesses
31
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
2 vowels
Common:
ASTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

553
334
178
156
133
100
95
88
82
68
62
49
41
40
36
34
25
21
20
20
19
18
15
13
13
12
12
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUATS:

23% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
SPINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
DROLE 6.01 bits
14.2% →
CARLE 5.40 bits
7.5% →
SPINE 5.35 bits
6.6% →
THEIR 5.31 bits
5.6% →
DRICE 4.97 bits
4.2% →
TALER 4.63 bits
4.0% →
CRONE 5.18 bits
3.7% →
CRIME 4.09 bits
3.5% →
SLIER 4.61 bits
2.9% →
SHIEL 4.03 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1A1T1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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