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QUEEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.5% 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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 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 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,972 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in QUEEN.

First-turn measures

All four describe QUEEN 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.

3.81 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,972 Rank among openers
Opening with QUEEN left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It 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 (3.46 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

QUEEN can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

716 answers
367 answers
185 answers
153 answers
120 answers
103 answers
81 answers
78 answers
66 answers
59 answers
55 answers
41 answers
34 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

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.

Try next

TRAIL SLART GIANT SOLAR COAST SADLY

Strategy after playing QUEEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEEN:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% 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% →
TRAIL 5.94 bits
15.5% →
SLART 5.54 bits
7.8% →
GIANT 5.06 bits
6.4% →
SOLAR 4.44 bits
5.1% →
COAST 5.14 bits
4.3% →
SADLY 4.01 bits
3.4% →
SLART 5.07 bits
3.3% →
ARISE 4.36 bits
2.8% →
STAIR 4.52 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.07 bits

Research on QUEEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUEEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,926 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 QUEEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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

One syllable Say it KWEEN.

Rhymes with GREEN CLEAN SCENE SHEEN TWEEN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUEEN is a kind of insect or woman.

Synonyms FAIRY QUEER faggot fag

Opposites king

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUEEN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 72 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 80 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

I'm the queen of the world.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The queen had a sister.
© tatoeba.org contributor araneo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).