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

QUEYU

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A skirt or apron of woven glass beads worn by Amerindian women of Guyana

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

Use QUEYU in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 80.3% 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 QUEYU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUEYU 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 70.2% of games, misses completely in 29.8%, and leaves about 469 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,824 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.08 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 QUEYU 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.

2.90 Entropy (bits)
469 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUEYU 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.

4.08 Avg guesses
99.58% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,824 Rank among openers
Opening with QUEYU left 10 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 4.08 average. It ranks #14,824 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
17
3 guesses
437
4 guesses
1,290
5 guesses
542
6 guesses
58

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
16%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

QUEYU can come back 29 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

711 answers
686 answers
255 answers
167 answers
157 answers
87 answers
83 answers
63 answers
61 answers
37 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1E1Y4U1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing QUEYU

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUEYU:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
29% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.8% →
TRAIL 6.06 bits
28.8% →
RAILE 5.33 bits
10.7% →
SOLAR 4.85 bits
7.0% →
SNOUT 5.07 bits
6.6% →
SLART 5.20 bits
3.6% →
STURE 4.43 bits
3.5% →
RATEL 4.30 bits
2.6% →
STAIR 4.21 bits
2.6% →
SLART 2.99 bits
1.6% →
SIDLE 3.99 bits

Research on QUEYU

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUEYU, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.08 guesses and ranks #14,837 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 QUEYU can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.08, at or below the proven-optimal 4.08, 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).