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

QUEME

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To please, to satisfy.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English quemen (“to please”), from Old English cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare cwēme (“pleasant, agreeable, acceptable”) and cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“to come”), English come.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use QUEME in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How QUEME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUEME 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 397 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,265 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe QUEME 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.

3.51 Entropy (bits)
397 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUEME 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.58% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,265 Rank among openers
Opening with QUEME left 10 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 3.92 average. It ranks #14,265 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
600
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
401
6 guesses
35

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
33%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

QUEME can come back 47 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

836 answers
346 answers
245 answers
160 answers
97 answers
96 answers
92 answers
53 answers
52 answers
48 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1E1M3E1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing QUEME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEME:

35% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
LATER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.1% →
TRAIL 5.94 bits
14.5% →
LATER 5.17 bits
10.3% →
ROAST 5.05 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.20 bits
4.1% →
MINOR 4.80 bits
4.0% →
SONLY 3.96 bits
3.9% →
SLART 5.16 bits
2.2% →
TALER 3.76 bits
2.2% →
RATEL 4.63 bits
2.0% →
SERAL 4.00 bits

Research on QUEME

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUEME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.94 guesses and ranks #14,318 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 QUEME can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.94, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).