5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

QUAWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of quaw

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 QUAWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUAWS 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 71.9% of games, misses completely in 28.1%, and leaves about 327 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,992 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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 _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER STIPE TRICE TRONE CRIME
Words starting with Q Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
327 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUAWS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,992 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUAWS ranks #13,992 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
617
4 guesses
1,303
5 guesses
378
6 guesses
28
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:
ASU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
23%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

45 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

662
428
238
162
142
112
99
87
84
61
36
34
30
24
13
13
13
12
12
11
10
7
7
7
6
6
5
4
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUAWS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
18% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
STIPE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.1% →
TOILE 5.90 bits
18.2% →
TALER 5.44 bits
10.1% →
STIPE 5.51 bits
6.9% →
TRICE 5.14 bits
6.0% →
TRONE 5.40 bits
4.7% →
CRIME 4.09 bits
4.2% →
CLOTE 4.23 bits
3.7% →
SALET 4.62 bits
3.6% →
RONTE 5.11 bits
2.6% →
SHUNT 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1A1W4S1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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