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QUEST

Yes, QUEST was the Wordle answer on August 20, 2023 (Wordle #792).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kwɛst/

Noun

A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

“the hero's quest”

Noun

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

“to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.”

Verb

To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.

Verb

To search for something; to seek.

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: August 20, 2023 (#792).

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

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How QUEST performs as a guess

QUEST 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,710 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___T Q in the 1st position and T in the 5th position Q__S_ Q in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE TITAN COALY TARTE PAIRE
Words starting with Q Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.37 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUEST 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,710 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUEST ranks #10,710 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
30
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
G U E S T
Q U E S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUEST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

491
457
134
123
106
84
77
72
71
62
53
48
45
34
34
33
31
29
27
27
24
22
21
18
17
16
14
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEST:

21% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
19% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
TITAN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
CAROL 5.98 bits
19.4% →
RAILE 5.43 bits
5.7% →
TITAN 4.99 bits
5.2% →
COALY 4.90 bits
4.5% →
TARTE 4.81 bits
3.6% →
PAIRE 4.52 bits
3.3% →
CLARY 4.03 bits
3.1% →
CREED 4.45 bits
3.0% →
CLONE 4.40 bits
2.6% →
ARIEL 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1E1S1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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