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QUEER

Yes, QUEER was the Wordle answer on June 24, 2026 (Wordle #1831).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kwɪə//kwɪɹ//kwiə̯/

Adjective

Homosexual.

Adjective

Non-heterosexual or non-cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.

Noun

A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.

Noun

A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.

Alternative forms: qwer

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: June 24, 2026 (#1831).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 24, 2026 (#1831).

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

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How QUEER performs as a guess

QUEER 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 279 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,913 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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__E_ Q in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe QUEER 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
279 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUEER 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,913 Rank among openers
Opening with QUEER left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,913 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
666
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
388
6 guesses
40
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
29%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
P E N C E
F R E E R
Q U E E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUEER in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

QUEER can come back 54 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

634 answers
306 answers
290 answers
149 answers
130 answers
103 answers
96 answers
88 answers
65 answers
50 answers
43 answers
42 answers
33 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1E1E1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TALON SLANT COAST TIARE SOILY SONLY

Strategy after playing QUEER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEER:

27% chance
Suggested:
TALON
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
TALON 5.82 bits
12.9% →
SLANT 5.43 bits
12.2% →
COAST 5.39 bits
6.3% →
TIARE 4.62 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
4.3% →
SOILY 3.50 bits
4.0% →
SONLY 3.94 bits
3.7% →
ALIEN 4.37 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 5.02 bits
2.1% →
CRUST 4.38 bits

Research on QUEER

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUEER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,790 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 QUEER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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 KWIHR.

Rhymes with CLEAR CHEER SHEER STEER SPEAR

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUEER is a kind of man or prevent.

Synonyms FUNNY CROSS gay QUEEN curious odd

Opposites familiar bisexual heterosexual

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUEER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.

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.