5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

QUEYU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.3% of possible answers.

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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.

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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 465 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Q__Y_ Q in the 1st position and Y in the 4th position _U__U U in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL RAILE SOLAR SNOUT SLART STURE
Words starting with Q Words ending with U

First-turn measures

2.89 Entropy (bits)
465 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.6% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,824 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUEYU 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
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

28 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

707
677
252
165
155
87
81
63
59
37
15
13
11
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

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.

30.0% →
TRAIL 6.06 bits
28.7% →
RAILE 5.33 bits
10.7% →
SOLAR 4.85 bits
7.0% →
SNOUT 5.07 bits
6.6% →
SLART 5.20 bits
3.7% →
STURE 4.43 bits
3.4% →
PEART 4.39 bits
2.7% →
STAIR 4.21 bits
2.5% →
SLART 3.01 bits
1.6% →
SIDLE 3.99 bits

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.