5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

QUEEN

Yes, QUEEN was the Wordle answer on November 23, 2023 (Wordle #887).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kwiːn/[kʰw̥iːn]

Noun

The wife, consort, or widow of a king.

“The divorced king was looking for a new queen.”

Noun

A female monarch.

Verb

To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.

Verb

To promote a pawn to a queen.

Alternative forms: queene, quene, queyne

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 23, 2023 (#887).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How QUEEN performs as a guess

QUEEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.8% of games, misses completely in 30.2%, and leaves about 320 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,972 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___N Q in the 1st position and N in the 5th position Q__E_ Q in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__N U in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART GIANT SOLAR COAST SADLY
Words starting with Q Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.80 Entropy (bits)
320 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUEEN 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
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,972 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUEEN ranks #13,972 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
646
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
385
6 guesses
36
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
31%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
H Y M E N
Q U E E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUEEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

713
366
184
152
119
103
81
78
65
58
55
41
32
29
27
27
27
21
21
17
16
13
11
10
10
7
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEEN:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
GIANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.2% →
ROAST 5.98 bits
15.5% →
SLART 5.55 bits
7.8% →
GIANT 5.06 bits
6.4% →
SOLAR 4.41 bits
5.0% →
COAST 5.12 bits
4.4% →
SADLY 4.01 bits
3.4% →
SLART 5.07 bits
3.3% →
ARISE 4.36 bits
2.8% →
STAIR 4.53 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.07 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1E1E1N1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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