QUEUE
Yes, QUEUE was the Wordle answer on November 19, 2023 (Wordle #883).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kjuː//kjʉw//kju/
- Noun
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A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
- Noun
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A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- Verb
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To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
- Verb
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To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda and cola.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KYOO.
Rhymes with DEBUT THREW SCREW RENEW CANOE
In a sentence
He was in the queue.
You have to queue up.
Use QUEUE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 78.3% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: November 19, 2023 (#883).
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See what the public sample says →QUEUE in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #914
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QUEUE appeared in LETTER HOMOPHONES (blue group).
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· Puzzle #2
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QUEUE appeared in LETTER HOMOPHONES (purple group).
How QUEUE performs as a guess
QUEUE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.4% of games, misses completely in 40.6%, and leaves about 516 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,806 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.06 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe QUEUE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How QUEUE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches QUEUE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
QUEUE can come back 36 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for QUEUE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing QUEUE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUEUE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing QUEUE:
Research on QUEUE
Game-tree analysis and word research for QUEUE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with QUEUE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.07 guesses and ranks #14,829 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 QUEUE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 4.06, at or below the proven-optimal 4.07, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- QUEUE 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 B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- 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 (4.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).