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

QUEEM

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

No dictionary definition for QUEEM is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 82.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check QUEEM on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 QUEEM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUEEM 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 64.9% of games, misses completely in 35.1%, and leaves about 406 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,492 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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 QUEEM 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.

3.47 Entropy (bits)
406 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUEEM 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.62% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,492 Rank among openers
Opening with QUEEM left 9 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 3.95 average. It ranks #14,492 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
18
3 guesses
580
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
436
6 guesses
36
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
28%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

QUEEM can come back 46 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

834 answers
404 answers
184 answers
158 answers
112 answers
96 answers
92 answers
54 answers
54 answers
43 answers
42 answers
36 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1E1E1M3
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing QUEEM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEEM:

35% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
17% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.1%
TRAIL 5.94 bits
17.0%
TIARE 5.32 bits
7.8%
SOLAR 4.58 bits
6.7%
SLANT 5.19 bits
4.7%
LAIRY 4.82 bits
4.0%
SONLY 3.96 bits
3.9%
SLART 5.16 bits
2.3%
RAILE 4.60 bits
2.3%
ROAST 4.34 bits
1.8%
REAST 4.12 bits

Research on QUEEM

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUEEM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.95 guesses and ranks #14,404 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 QUEEM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95; proven optimal play reaches 3.95. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 KWEEM. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.