5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

QUICH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of quitch.

Verb

Obsolete spelling of quitch.

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 QUICH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUICH 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 63.0% of games, misses completely in 37.0%, and leaves about 400 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,858 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

_U__H U in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TALER SLANE TRONE CARLE STARE SOREL
Words starting with Q Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
400 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUICH 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,858 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUICH ranks #12,858 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
717
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
31
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:
IU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
27%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

872
263
173
163
144
117
105
45
45
39
34
32
26
23
22
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
11
9
9
9
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUICH:

37% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.0% →
TALER 6.05 bits
11.2% →
TALER 5.22 bits
7.3% →
SLANE 5.10 bits
6.9% →
TRONE 5.21 bits
6.1% →
CARLE 5.57 bits
5.0% →
STARE 5.59 bits
4.5% →
SOREL 4.50 bits
1.9% →
STRAE 4.48 bits
1.9% →
LEAST 4.63 bits
1.7% →
CANER 4.03 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1C3H4
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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